In Pictures: Tornado-hit Tembisa picks up the pieces

27 July 2016 - 16:05 By Staff Reporter
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Residents of Tembisa have started picking up the pieces after a tornado swept through the area on Tuesday afternoon, damaging buildings and displacing 400 people.

The Malimba of God church was completely destroyed by the tornado that hit the Ekurhuleni township on Tuesday afternoon.
The Malimba of God church was completely destroyed by the tornado that hit the Ekurhuleni township on Tuesday afternoon.
Image: Boikhutso Ntsoko

According to the City of Ekurhuleni, the thunderstorm blew roofs off about 200 households in Winnie Mandela leaving an estimated 400 people displaced. Other areas damaged by the storm include 100 shacks and 20 houses in Hospital view.


Video courtesy Jana van den Heever via Facebook

The tornado also ripped the roof off Phumulani Mall and damaged Tembisa Tertiary Hospital.

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The Gauteng department of health said the hospital fence, carports, about 20 vehicles, three ambulances and the roof of one building had been destroyed and trees were uprooted.

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Ekurhuleni has established a Joint Operational Centre (JoC) to assist victims of the tornado,  providing salvage sheets as an interim measure to cover the roofs, distributing food parcels and blankets as well as deploying social workers and mobile clinics.

 

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