The SAPS has confirmed that they have found vehicle parts including a front and rear bumper of the VW Polo that is suspected to be linked to the three police officers whose bodies were found yesterday at the Hennops River in Centurion.
The parts were found by the search and rescue teams who have been searching for the river since the early hours of Wednesday.
Police said the families of Constables Cebekhulu Linda, Boipelo Senoge, and Keamogetswe Buys, have all been informed about the latest development.
“A police reflector jacket belonging to one of the deceased police officers has also been found.
SAPS divers, City of Tshwane divers, SAPS Special Task Force (STF) divers, Search and Rescue South Africa, have located a metal object that they suspect may be the missing vehicle.
This metal object was felt by divers 4km from the N1.
There is no confirmation yet, as this metal object is covered by debris,” read a statement from the police.
The statement adds that the SAPS Crime Intelligence, the cybercrime unit, detectives, Lyttleton Community Police Forum (CPF) Traffic, fidelity secure fire, vision tactical private security are part of the operation.
Police have since suspended the search and will resume tomorrow morning.
The three officers disappeared last Wednesday, on their way from Bloemfontein to Limpopo where they were deployed.
Their bodies, together with that of a Lyttelton police station employee whose Renault Kangoo van was found submerged in the river, and a fifth unidentified decomposed body, were retrieved at the river on Tuesday.
