Police have confirmed that the two additional bodies found in the Hennops River are not connected to the three missing Free State constables.

National police commissioner, General Fannie Masemola spoke to the media after the missing vehicle of the three constables were found on Thursday.

He said there is no connection between the three Free State constables and the two other bodies that were found during the police’s large-scale search in the Hennops River.

“I just want to make that clear because it seems people believe that all five bodies that were found were here.”

Earlier this week, five bodies were recovered from the Hennops River in Centurion during an intensive two-day search for three missing police constables.

Addressing journalists at the crime scene, deputy national police commissioner for crime detection, Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya said one of the bodies found in the river was of a “white person”.

Police also unearthed a Renault Kangoo panel van in the river, and a fourth body.

The deceased driver of the van was a member of the SAPS attached to the Lyttelton police station in Tshwane.

A white handbag, an identity document, a vehicle service book and keys.
These are some of the items police officers found inside the wrecked white VW Polo, which three Free State constables were travelling into Limpopo when they went missing last week.

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.

Also read: Hennops River bodies: No bullet wounds on three deceased Constables

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