TWO people, including a 7-month-old baby, drowned near Butterworth, Eastern Cape police said yesterday.
Police spokesperson Captain Jackson Manatha said in the first incident on Monday a nanny put the infant to bed and went to work in the garden.
The child crawled out of the house and drowned in a hole filled with water in the informal settlement.
In the second incident on the same day a woman was trying to rescue her child from drowning at Mazzepa Bay in Kentani. She rescued her child, but was herself swept away by strong waves.
Woman and baby drown
TWO people, including a 7-month-old baby, drowned near Butterworth, Eastern Cape police said yesterday.
Police spokesperson Captain Jackson Manatha said in the first incident on Monday a nanny put the infant to bed and went to work in the garden.
The child crawled out of the house and drowned in a hole filled with water in the informal settlement.
In the second incident on the same day a woman was trying to rescue her child from drowning at Mazzepa Bay in Kentani. She rescued her child, but was herself swept away by strong waves.
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