CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in floods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 86, the police minister said Saturday as rescuers continued to retrieve bodies from the floodwater.

South Africa's Eastern Cape province hit by devastating floods, death toll rises to 86, President Ramaphosa blames climate change.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to visit the sites of devastating floods that have left at least 78 people dead in the southeast of the country