S. A: FOUR PEOPLE HAVE DIED AFTER A CAR WAS SWEPT AWAY AT AN OVERFLOWING BRIDGE IN THE MAKOTOPONG RIVER NEAR SEBAYENG.(PHOTO).
Four people have died after a car was swept away at an overflowing bridge in the Makotopong River near Sebayeng. Police recovered the bodies after a blue Renault Kwid carrying five occupants was pulled into the river during heavy water flow on Sunday morning, 8 March 2026. One passenger escaped from the vehicle and alerted police and emergency services. Police say the car was travelling along the Madiga–Makotopong gravel road when it overturned at the flooded bridge and was dragged into the river. The Provincial Search and Rescue team recovered the first body on Sunday. The victim was identified as Lebapa Petrus Mochitele, 27, from Madiga Village. EMS personnel declared him dead at the scene. Search operations resumed on Monday with the SAPS Water Wing Unit, EMS Search and Rescue, the Fire and Rescue Department, and an EMS helicopter. Teams located the submerged vehicle and recovered three more bodies. The victims were identified as Seobi Dikgale, 33, Betty Makokoane, 22, and Shel...
According to sources,the death toll from a raid carried out by South Sudanese gunmen in western Ethiopia has risen to 208 people and the assailants kidnapped 108 children.The attack took place on friday in the Horn of Africa nation's Gambela region which alongside a neighboring province,hosts more than 284,000 South Sudanese refugees who fled conflict in their country.By sunday afternoon,the number had risen to 208 dead and 75 people wounded from 140 a day earlier,government spokesman Getachew Reda told pressmen,adding that the assailants had also abducted 108 children and taken 2,000 head of livestock.Getachew did not give further details,but officials in Gambela said on Saturday,that Ethiopian troops had crossed the border in pursuit of the attackers.Cross-border cattle raids have occurred in the same area in the past,often involving Murle tribesmen from South Sudan's Jonglei and Upper Nile regions areas awash with weapons that share borders with Ethiopia.One more photo below. 
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