Imogen Vollenhoven
27 December 2012
The City of Cape Town today said
three people were rescued from drowning yesterday.
Spokesperson
Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said an eight year-old boy Luyanda Skafungana of
Atlantis was rescued at Melkbosstrand.
In Table View 15-year-old, Waylin de Vos was rescued and transported by
ambulance to the Somerset Hospital.
He said
one-year-old, Nick Sumba found himself in distress at Muizenberg Beach yesterday
afternoon.
Solomons-Johannes
said all the patients were transported to various hospitals for observation and
further medical treatment.
Meanwhile the City of Cape Town said the
20-year-old man who was rescued from drowning at Hout Bay beach yesterday
however did not make it and died at Groote Schuur Hospital.
Spokesman Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said
attempts by the medical staff at the hospital, to completely resuscitate him
were unsuccessful.
At 4.45pm the doctor on-duty
at the emergency trauma unit declared the patient from the Imizamo Yethu
Informal Settlement in Hout Bay as deceased.
Solomons-Johannes said an autopsy would be
performed to determine the exact cause of death.
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