{"id":47850,"date":"2023-02-23T12:33:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T10:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/three-more-bodies-recovered-after-coffee-bay-floods-20230223\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T00:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:22:40","slug":"three-more-bodies-recovered-after-coffee-bay-floods-20230223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/three-more-bodies-recovered-after-coffee-bay-floods-20230223\/","title":{"rendered":"Three more bodies recovered after Coffee Bay floods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The OR Tambo District Municipality has confirmed the discovery of three more bodies of people who went missing following the devastating floods that hit Coffee Bay under King Sabata Dalinyebo Local Municipality last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of recovered bodies to five from the six people that were reported as missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-also-read-coffee-bay-floods-leave-two-dead-four-others-still-missing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/community-newspaper\/mthathaexpress\/coffee-bay-floods-leave-two-dead-four-others-still-missing-20230220\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ALSO READ | Coffee Bay floods leave two dead, four others still missing<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Search continues for a the two-year-old boy who went missing with his mother and sister after the house they were sleeping in was swept away by floods on February 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Navy Divers has, since Tuesday, also joined in the search and recovery of missing people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two bodies of siblings from Qhogi Village were recovered on Tuesday while a body of an 18-year-old woman was found yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_0a848bf8\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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