The matter was reported to the police, and members from the Provincial Search and Rescue and the K9 Unit were summoned to the scene.
Police in Mecklenburg have opened an inquest docket following the drowning of three children in an abandoned illegal mine hole, reportsThe three boys, between the ages of 7 and 9 years, had gone to play in the area on Sunday morning.Police spokesperson, Captain Mamphaswa Seabi explains that the children’s parents became suspicious when they had not returned later that afternoon and were nowhere to be found.
“The matter was reported to the police and members from the Provincial Search and Rescue and the K9 Unit were summoned to the scene. The three bodies were later retrieved from the water. They were identified as the Ramabala siblings, Machaba, 8, and Itumeleng, 9, as well as their friend Pabalelo Mokgethwa, 7.
He added that earlier in the week, an 11-year-old boy’s lifeless body was recovered from the Revhumbwe river in Malamulela.
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