Hennops River bodies: No bullet wounds on 3 deceased constables
Police are investigating the possibility of an accident that might have led to the death of three police constables.
Police have ruled out gunshot wounds in the deaths of the three young constables found in the Hennops River, with investigations now focused on a possible accident and pending forensic results, Pretoria Rekord reports.
Speaking to the media on the scene after the recovery of the VW Polo from the river, National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola said police are investigating a case of culpable homicide.
“At this stage, it looks like an accident until we finalise and the forensics have thoroughly investigated the car. Let the public be assured that this is what we have for now.
“For now there is nothing sinister that we physically have seen in terms of, let’s say, being shot, bullets, nothing. But, of course, there are injuries. Doctors will tell us exactly when they finalise their autopsies.”
The three police constables, 30-year-old Keamogetswe Buys, 20-year-old Constable Boipelo Senoge, and 24-year-old Cebekhulu Linda, disappeared last Wednesday while travelling from Bloemfontein to their deployment area in Limpopo.
Earlier this week, five bodies were recovered from the Hennops River in Centurion during an intensive two-day search for three missing police constables.
Among the dead were Constables Boipelo Senoge, Cebekhulu Linda, and Keamogetswe Buys, along with a Lyttelton police station employee who was driving a Renault Kangoo van, and a fifth, still-unidentified, decomposed body.
The search, led by SAPS and Tshwane Metro divers, began after vehicle debris believed to be from the constables’ missing VW Polo was found near the river on Monday, April 28.
The recovery followed days of tireless searching by a high-level SAPS task team across Gauteng, Limpopo, and the Free State. Investigators tracked a route from the Grasmere Toll Plaza on the N1, through the Buccleuch interchange, and onto John Voster Drive before locating key evidence near the river.
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