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Police in South Africa are searching for answers after the bodies of three police officers, who had been missing for six days, were found in a river.
Boipelo Senoge, aged 20, Cebekhulu Linda (24), and 30-year-old Keamogetswe Buys were last seen leaving a petrol station near Johannesburg last Wednesday.
The three officers were travelling from Free State to Limpopo when they went missing.
Their bodies were discovered by divers around 70km away in Hennops River, along with the remains of two other unnamed persons.
The three police officers – all constables – were travellng in a white VW Polo when they went missing, a police statement said.
Their vehicle-tracking device and mobile phones have been off since then.
A search team subsequently combed the length and breadth of the Gauteng, Free State and Limpopo Provinces, eventually finding parts of a vehicle believed to be a VW Polo, said national police commissioner, General Fannie Masemola.
A Renault Kangoo van was then found nearby on the banks of Hennops River in the Municipality of Centurion.
Divers searched that part of the river and recovered five bodies between Monday and Tuesday.
Along with the three constables, the divers found the remains of a police admin clerk, who has not been named. The clerk had been driving the Renault van, said Gen Masemola.
He added that the fifth body was decomposed and had not yet been identified.
The police are still looking for the VW Polo that the officers were travelling in.
In an address on Tuesday, Gen Masemola said: “We don’t want to speculate at this stage what led to the discovery of these bodies in this river, whether it was an accident or not, our investigation will reveal those aspects once we find their vehicle.”. – BBC
