Police have suspected foul play in the missing persons case of Mervin van Heerden in Evander, Mpumalanga, reports the Ridge Times.
A badly burnt body, suspected of being Van Heerden, was found in a pipe behind the number 5 shaft at the Evander Gold Mine.
Postmortem and DNA tests must confirm the identity of the deceased. The remains mainly consisted of bones.
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Two suspects were remanded in custody, and will appear in the Evander Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. A third suspect is still at large.
Police and emergency services worked tirelessly to get the body out of the pipe.
Mervin van Heerden is the co-owner of Karmer Butchery in Evander. He was officially reported as missing after the police found his abandoned car at the Evander dumping site on Friday afternoon.
A search of the dumping site did not render any clues as to what happened to Van Heerden.
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