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Over 400 people were killed and 40,000 people were displaced as a result of South Africa's "deadliest" floods
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More rain fell on South Africa’s flood-ravaged east on Saturday, following the country’s deadliest storm in living memory, which killed nearly 400 people and displaced tens of thousands. Floodwaters engulfed parts of Durban, South Africa’s southeastern coastal city, this week, ripping up roads, destroying hospitals, and sweeping away homes and those trapped inside. Emergency services were on high alert in the southeastern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, where Durban is situated off the Indian Ocean coast. In the city of 3.5 million people, which would normally be teeming with Easter holidaymakers this weekend, recovery processes and humanitarian relief were underway.

The death toll rose to 398 on Saturday, with 27 people still missing, according to the government. More than 40,000 people have been made homeless.

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“Unfortunately, bodies are still being recovered from homesteads, particularly in rural areas,” Shawn Herbst of the first responder company Netcare 911 told AFP.

“There is still damage occurring, particularly with the rain we are experiencing today.”

According to Puseletso Mofokeng, a South African Weather Service forecaster, this weekend’s rainfall will be “not as hectic as it has been in the past few days.”

More flooding is expected as the soil becomes oversaturated with water.

Rugby match has been cancelled.

Despite light rains, a local premiership division football match between AmaZulu and Maritzburg United took place Saturday at the 2010 World Cup Moses Mabhida Stadium.

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However, a Currie Cup rugby match scheduled for the city on Friday between the Sharks and the Bulls from Pretoria was cancelled as a mark of respect for flood victims.

The search and rescue operation is being led by troops, police, and volunteers.
Residents of Marianhill, who were desperate for news of missing relatives, were relieved to see rescuers, but the threat of new rains lingered.
“We have the rescue team finally… arrive here, but with the rain that is coming back, they are going to be interrupted,” said Dumisani Kanyile after recovery team members failed to find any of the 10 members of one family who went missing in the Durban district.

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