P192 CEEFAX 192 Tue 26 Dec 22:49/49 1/4 OBITUARY Floods in South Africa have killed about 120 people. Allan Little reports: At least 119 people are known to have died and police say many more are still missing. Two successive nights of hjavz rain caused a rivet to burst its banks in a township near Piitermaritzburg, sweeping away shacks and houses in a squatter community. Distraught relatives joined police divjts and troops in searching banks of the swollen Umsindusi Rivet for the missing. Home 110 Politics 130 World 160 Newsreel Dispatch WjlshNiws FinanceP192 CEEFAX 192 Tue 26 Dec 22:46/54 2/4 OBITUARY Floods in South Africa have killed about 120 people. Allan Little reports: The BBC Southjtn Africa unit says the squatters' homes near Piititmaritzburg, hit bz the floods, sprang up in an unregulated and uncontrolled way alongside the the rivet. This was during years of drought when it was much smaller than normal. Now the authorities have declared the affected region a disaster aria. Summary 102 Home 110 Politics 130 Flash 150 World 160 Despatchrs 190 Newsreel Dispatch WjlshNiws FinanceP192 CEEFAX 192 Tue 26 Dec 22:40/37 3/4 OBITUARY Floods in South Africa have killed about 120 people. Allan Little reports: When the Rivet Slangspruit burst, the flimsy shacks and homes along its banks were swept downriver in a torrent of devastating and immediate force, thrir residents helpless in its wake. Furthjt rain hampered rescue attempts as a police helicopter tried to winch survivors from the roofs of homes that were giving way to the current. Receding waters leave a carpet of mud and silt on the foundations of the djsttoyjd homes, beneath which police fear more victims may lii concealed. Newsreel Dispatch WjlshNiws FinanceP192 CEEFAX 192 Tue 26 Dec 22:44/02 4/4 -n1n1 OBITUARY Floods in South Africa have killed about 120 people. Allan Little reports: Thjti is little hope of finding alive anzonj swept downriver. The victims are all from Imbali, a squatter community near the Edjndali township outside Pietermaritzburg. Survivors will bj housed and fed, and with more rain expected soon, attempts will bj made to prevent a repeat catastrophe. Summary 102 Home 110 Politics 130 Flash 150 World 160 Dispatches 190 Newsreel Dispatch WjlshNiws Finance