WATCH: Rescuers recover bodies under collapsed wall in KwaMashu
Rescuers have recovered the second body of a man who was buried when a wall collapsed on his home in KwaMashu during this morning’s heavy rains.
The first body was pulled out earlier.
About 50 search and rescue workers were part of the massive recovery operation.
Two retaining walls are said to have collapsed.
Newswatch arrived to find rescuers have been on their knees, using a jackhammer and saws to try and cut through one of the walls that’s lying on the two shacks. Not long after, someone shouted that one person had been located in the rubble.
They then drilled around the body, removing mud and debris as they worked to get to it.
Moments after rescue members pulled the body of a man out from under the rubble.
READ: Two bodies recovered from under collapsed wall in KwaMashu
Dogs from the K9 unit were brought in to scour the scene.
The dogs sniffed around for a few seconds before they started digging vigorously in one area where rescue members had dug through the wall and into one of the shacks.
A TLB which is being used to dig up the mud was then brought in was used to dig up large amounts of mud and rubble from around the shack.
It also was used to break down most of the wall that collapsed on the shack.
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One of the bodies have just been recovered by rescuers, at the same time, distraught family members arrive on scene @ECR_Newswatch #KwaMashuWallCollapse pic.twitter.com/u5bcqzP75I
— Nushera Soodyal (@nushera) February 25, 2021
The second bod has just been located at the scene @ECR_Newswatch #KwaMashuWallCollapse pic.twitter.com/WazeK1CCF5
— Nushera Soodyal (@nushera) February 25, 2021
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