Five Things You Need To Know As You Wake Up: La Mercy home hit by mudslide
Watch the video taken by Newswatch on Wednesday.
Waking up on Thursday morning, most of the stories we share with you are hyperlocal, looking at the what the weather conditions have done to our surrounding areas. We end with this story in our 'Five Things'.
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Emergency crews have rescued a pregnant woman following a mudslide in La Mercy on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast. The Newswatch team were on site reporting live.
Watch here:
It’s understood that heavy rains that battered the area last night lead to the mudslide. Thick mud made its way onto the road and into the brown house you see at the bottom, trapping two women in @ECR_Newswatch pic.twitter.com/gcMR2Cet0s
— Nushera Soodyal (@nushera) October 6, 2021
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