Cape Town, Search operations are continuing for 63 people still missing following the devastating floods that swept through South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province last week.

More than 440 people have died.

Some of them swept away by swollen rivers and mudslides.

The government has declared KwaZulu-Natal a disaster area after officials described the floods as some of the worst to ever hit the province.

Nearly 300 schools and some health facilities have also been damaged.

Weather experts have said that climate change may be contributing to changing patterns and making such extreme events more frequent.

The rainfall has since eased but the amount of rain which fell last Monday was equal to about 75% of South Africa’s average annual precipitation.

In 2019, 165mm fell on in April and 108mm was recorded in October 2017, the BBC news reported.

Source: Oman News Agency