Search for third George student continues, after bakkie plunges off cliff
The search for a third person‚ believed to have been flung from a vehicle after it plunged over a cliff near Herolds Bay on Sunday‚ continued on Tuesday morning. This after the bodies of two George students who were also in the car were recovered on Monday.Paramedics and emergency services were called out to Voëlklip‚ near the town‚ late on Sunday after someone reported seeing a vehicle on the rocks at the bottom of the cliff.Southern Cape police spokesperson Malcolm Pojie said friends and family of the three men – aged 20‚ 21 and 22 – became concerned when they failed to return home after an evening out with friends.“The last they had heard from them was on Saturday night when they were in the vicinity of Herolds Bay‚” Pojie said.“A search party was sent to the area.”Pojie said police found marks on the surface of a dirt road near Voëlklip which suggested that a vehicle had left the road.“A vehicle’s rearview mirror was found just off the road and the badge of a vehicle was discovered even further past the edge of the cliff.”The wreckage of a Toyota Hilux was later discovered‚ lying on its roof‚ about 200m down a cliff on large rocks. – TMG News Wire,The Herald..
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