Durban – A protester who was running from rubber bullet fire and a haze of teargas has died in a stream after he became entangled in a web of illegal electricity connections.

The man, who has yet to identified, is understood to have been part of a group of shack dwellers who embarked on a violent service delivery protest on Monday.

Police search and rescue unit officers braved the live wires to pull his body to the riverbank.

Police spokesperson Colonel Jay Naicker said that residents of the Quarry Road informal settlement in Asherville had taken to the streets in the early hours of Monday, blockading the roads.

“Two people were arrested for public violence,” he said.

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