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UPDATE: Three dead in water pipe tragedy

Emergency officials struggle to retrieve bodies from a pipeline in eShowe

POLICE and community members are busy recovering three bodies from a newly laid pipeline in eShowe after several workers were trapped in the tube earlier this morning.

Two others are being transported to hospital.

It is reported that the men were overcome by exhaust gases of a petrol water pump while cleaning the pipeline from Goedertrouw Dam to Rutledge Park Dam.

ZO Journalist Larry Bentley is on the scene as rescue efforts continue.

Read the full story and update in the Zululand Observer Weekender edition.

 

 

 

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