Experts try to determine whether vehicle parts in the hennops river are linked to the VW polo powered by three police officers whose bodies were found earlier this week in Centurion.
Spokesperson for the police Brig Athlenda Mathe confirmed this on Wednesday Vehicle parts, including front and rear bumpers, were found by search and rescue teams.
She said that all three families had been informed of the latest development. She said experts tried to determine whether these vehicle parts were linked to the VW polo in which the three police officers traveled.
The bodies of the three officers, Constables Cebekhulu Linda, 24, Keamogetswe Buys, 30, and Bippelo Senoge, 20, were picked up on Tuesday.
The trio was last seen on April 23 in the Enden Garage at the Grasmere Toll Plaza on the N1. Their bodies were found with two other bodies, Including that of an admin assistant at the Lyttelton police station.
‘A police reflector jacket from one of the deceased police officers has also been found. Saps Diders, City of Tshwane Divers and EMS, Saps Special Task Force (STF) Divers, searching and saving South Africa, have found a metal object that they suspect can be the missing vehicle, “said Mathe.
She said this metal object was found by divers 4 km from the N1. “There is no confirmation yet that this metal object is covered by rubble.”
Saps Crime Intelligence, the Cybercrime Unit, Detectives, Lyttleton Community Police Forum (CPF) and private security groups also participated in the operation.
On Thursday morning the police knew rubble on the river while continuing to look for the missing vehicle.
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