{"id":42606,"date":"2026-01-03T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/three-fatalities-and-one-person-missing-following-flood-related-incidents-in-mpumalanga\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:30:05","slug":"three-fatalities-and-one-person-missing-following-flood-related-incidents-in-mpumalanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/three-fatalities-and-one-person-missing-following-flood-related-incidents-in-mpumalanga\/","title":{"rendered":"Three fatalities and one person missing following flood-related incidents in Mpumalanga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NELSPRUIT &#8211; Three fatalities and one person reported missing have been recorded following separate flood-related incidents across Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n<p>First incident:<\/p>\n<p>On 01 January 2026 at approximately 21:00, a 19-year-old male was reportedly with his two brothers at a local tavern in Louisville. Later that evening, he decided to walk home alone.<\/p>\n<p>It is suspected that while attempting to cross a river, he was overpowered by strong water currents caused by heavy rainfall and was swept away. On 02 January 2026 at approximately 11:30, community members and family located his body. He was positively identified by his uncle, and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) certified him deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Second incident:<\/p>\n<p>On 01 January 2026 at approximately 23:00, along Lilly Mine Road, it is alleged that two males and one female were travelling in a red-and-blue Toyota Condor when the vehicle was swept away by floodwaters while attempting to cross a bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The two male occupants managed to escape, while&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75989&#038;page=three-fatalities-and-one-person-missing-following-flood-related-incidents-in-mpumalanga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NELSPRUIT &#8211; Three fatalities and one person reported missing have been recorded following separate flood-related incidents across Mpumalanga. First incident: On 01 January 2026 at approximately 21:00, a 19-year-old male was reportedly with his two brothers at a local tavern in Louisville. Later that evening, he decided to walk home alone. It is suspected that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/610987202_1300016942149943_2696970314790982647_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[313],"class_list":["post-42606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-mpumalanga"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/610987202_1300016942149943_2696970314790982647_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}