The police are continuing their search for the bodies of two teenage girls they suspect may have drowned in a dam in Bellville.
|||Cape Town - The police are continuing their search on Wednesday for the bodies of two teenage girls they suspect may have drowned in a dam in Bellville on Monday.
By 3pm on Tuesday the police had still not found the bodies of the 13 and 16-year-olds and called off the search which was set to resume at 6.30am on Wednesday.
The teenagers are from Belhar.
Police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Andrè Traut said it was suspected that the teenagers had drowned in the dam opposite the Bellville Velodrome while swimming with friends.
“Death inquest case dockets have been registered to investigate the circumstances,” he said
A boy, who was with the girls and other friends when the two disappeared, pointed to the area where they were last seen swimming.
Bellville police station spokeswoman Captain Fienie Nimb said since only one of the girls’ relatives had come forward, the names of the teenagers could not be released.
On Facebook Lance Elliott said he hoped there was a “no swimming” sign at the dam.
“As a kid we used to go shooting pellet guns there ‘in the bush’ and there have been stories of drowning there for years… RIP.”
Anwar Ismail, who stopped at the dam, wrote: “I witnessed a large police and emergency personnel, and police divers searching the very murky waters there. By this morning a SAPS rubber duck was added.”
Freddy Bolton wrote that the quarry’s steep slopes were treacherous. “The whole area ought to be fenced off.”
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Cape Argus