{"id":326230,"date":"2017-06-07T13:35:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326230"},"modified":"2017-06-07T13:35:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:35:23","slug":"cape-town-storm-five-killed-as-drought-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/cape-town-storm-five-killed-as-drought-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town storm: Five killed as drought ends"},"content":{"rendered":"
Five people have been killed by a storm in Cape Town that South African media dubbed “the mother of all storms”.<\/p>\n
Schools and universities have had to shut, roofs were blown off and shelters have been opened for those left destitute.<\/p>\n
The storm comes at the end of the region’s worst drought in a century.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s Mo Allie in Cape Town reports that before the storm, there had been several interfaith prayer group meetings praying for rain.<\/p>\n