3 MISSING COPS CERTIFIED DEAD AS SEARCH FOR CAR CONTINUES

One of the other victims was identified as an administrative clerk at Lyttelton Police Station

- SIMON MAJADIBODU

THE National Commissioner of the South African Police Service (SAPS), General Fannie Masemola, has confirmed that the three police officers who went missing last week are among the five bodies recovered from the Hennops River.

Speaking during a media briefing at the river last night, Masemola said the bodies of Constable Keamogetswe Buys, Constable Boipelo Senoge, and Constable Cebekhulu Linda had been identified by their families at the Tshwane mortuary.

“It has been a difficult six days for members of the South African Police Service and affected families, as we searched everywhere for our three missing police officers,” Masemola said.

The trio was last seen in the early hours of Thursday at a petrol station near the Grasmere Toll Plaza on the N1 in Gauteng.