One man died due to cold weather conditions in Cape Town

Mluleki Mrwebi
28 August 2013

ER24 paramedics attended to a scene whereby police found two men huddled under wet cardboard boxes, unresponsive, freezing cold and wet. 

ER24 Spokesperson Vanessa Jackson said the one man was already dead with nothing more that could be done for him. 

The second man was in a critical condition with his body temperature at a dangerously low level. 

Jackson said the other man was transported to hospital, at the moment the man is stable at Tygerberg hospital.

Jackson added that the circumstances around the incident as to why the men were outside in freezing conditions remains a subject of police investigation.

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