Rescuers are searching for a pregnant woman who was swept away in the Berg River.
|||Cape Town - A search for a pregnant woman, swept away in the Berg River on Friday, was set to continue at first light on Saturday.
Local community leader Billy Claasen said a woman and her 24-year-old daughter, believed to be four months’ pregnant, were swept away while trying to cross a bridge on Soetdraai farm, about 10km outside Piketberg.
The mother managed to save herself, but her daughter was swept away.
Claasen said police, a rescue unit and at least three teams from the diving unit were on site yesterday. But there was no sign of the woman after a four-hour search.
Claasen said they were now looking for a body.
Police spokesman Colonel Tembinkosi Kinana confirmed the incident, saying the woman had been crossing the Berg River at about 2pm on Friday.