Bodies recovered after flash flood

AT least nine people have died and eight others are missing after they were swept away by a flash flood along a river in Johannesburg, rescue officials in South Africa have said.

Two bodies were recovered on Saturday and a further seven bodies were found when the rescue mission resumed on Sunday morning.

The dead and missing were all part of a congregation conducting religious rituals along the Jukskei river on Saturday, according to officials.

Rescue teams are conducting interviews with some of the people who survived or were rescued to establish exactly how many people have been accounted for.