A group of evicted KZN flood victims were forced to sleep on the street on Monday night when other displaced people refused to let them back into a hall in Durban.

TimesLIVE reports that about 300 people were evicted from the Transnet building where they had illegally occupied a hostel for two weeks.

This group, originally from Mega village in Umlazi, decided to move from Yellowwood Park civic hall into the then empty hostel in the building, known as the Montclair Lodge.

This was an attempt to put pressure on the provincial government to speed up the process of moving them out of community shelters and allocate housing.

On Monday, the sheriff of the court, the police and private security executed an eviction order and the group was moved back to the hall they had come from.

However, their fellow displaced flood victims, who declined to join them in the hostel invasion, refused to let them back into the civic hall, according to ward councillor Gavin Hegter.

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