Cargo Lounge's roof. Picture: Mpumalanga News.
Some residents were left with damaged and roofless properties on Saturday after heavy rains swept through parts of Nkomazi and surrounding areas in Mbombela. A popular joint in Kabokweni Cargo Lounge was also left roofless as well as with a damaged wall, Mpumalanga News reports.
The Nkomazi local municipality reported that about nine houses in Driekoppies, Middleplaas, Mogogeni, and Schoemansdal were affected.
Last Tuesday, a nine-year-old boy in Louisville died after a brick wall collapsed onto him when a hailstorm battered the area leaving 25 houses damaged.
See pictures:
During the hailstorm.
Corrugated iron roof blown off.
Damaged house in Nkomazi.
The house roof was also blown off.
One of the houses in Nkomazi.
Cargo Lounge’s damaged roof.
VIDEO: A resident in Kabokweni records the aftermath of the hailstorm.
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