The bodies of two girls aged 13 and 16 have been found in a dam opposite the Bellville Velodrome in Cape Town.
|||Cape Town - The bodies of two girls aged 13 and 16 have been found in a dam opposite the Bellville Velodrome.
The girls, reportedly from Belhar, had been swimming with a group of friends on Monday.
After an unsuccessful search on Monday and Tuesday, police divers retrieved the bodies in pouring rain on Wednesday.
Police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Andrè Traut said the circumstances of the drownings were being investigated.
The group of six children apparently hitchhiked to Bellville where they took turns to sit-swim in a tube on the dam.
According to reports the tube overturned and while four swam to safety, two were unable to swim.
The scene remained cordoned off late on Wednesday.
Captain Fienie Nimb, spokeswoman at the Bellville police station, said a family had identified one of the bodies. A second family was expected to come forward on Thursday.
Only then would the girls’ names be released.
natasha.bezuidenhout@inl.co.za
Cape Argus