Child drowns in Swartkops River
By Dorette De Swart - 26 July 2015
[caption id="attachment_93364" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Police Divers, Search and Rescue and Coastal Water Rescue search for a missing child in the Swartkops River. Picture: Eugene Coetzee/The Herald.[/caption]
Rescue workers found the body of a child in the Swartkops River this afternoon following a search and rescue operation by Police Divers, Search and Rescue and Coastal Water Rescue.
According to authorities on the scene, six children went swimming in the river on Sunday (26/07/15) but only five made it back to the river bank.
The body of the child was retrieved from the water late on Sunday afternoon.
Read more in The Herald tomorrow. - Gareth Wilson
