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Mdumbi Beach: 7 Year-Old Missing

Police K9 Search and Rescue, Police WPDS (Water Policing and Diving Services), assisted by local Police, Mdumbi Backpackers volunteers (local surfers) and NSRI Mdumbi/Nyandeni Municipal lifeguards, are continuing in ongoing search efforts for a missing local 7 year old male child at Mdumbi Beach, Eastern Cape.

At 12h48, Sunday, 1 June, NSRI Mdumbi/Nyandeni Municipal lifeguards were alerted to reports of a drowning in progress at Mdumbi Beach. Lifeguards (off-duty at the time) responded.

4 children, locals, a male aged 7, and 3 females (two age 13 and one age 8), visiting the beach with family, appear to have been caught in rip currents while swimming during the outgoing tide.

Mdumbi Backpackers volunteers, who were surfing in the area at the time, noticed a group of children in distress in the surf zone and they rescued 3 females from the surf zone (using their surfboards) but indications alerted them to a 4th person still missing in the surf zone.

NSRI Mdumbi/Nyandeni Municipal lifeguards joined the Mdumbi Backpackers volunteers searching for the missing 7 year old male child.

Lifeguards conducted free dive search efforts while sea and shoreline search efforts continued.

The SA Police Services and Police K9 Search and Rescue were activated and Police attended at the scene.

Despite the extensive sea and shoreline search there remains no signs of the missing 7 year old male child.

A female, age 13, was medically treated on the beach for non-fatal drowning symptoms and in a serious condition transported to hospital sadly passed away.

The remaining 2 girls were not injured.

Police, assisted by Mdumbi Backpackers volunteers and Mdumbi NSRI/Nyandeni Municipal lifeguards, are continuing in ongoing search efforts.

Thoughts, care and compassion, are with the family and friends of the missing child in this difficult time.

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