7-year-old girl's body recovered at Palmiet River; Search continues for 17-year-old at Kleinmond Main Beach

The Western Cape’s Police Dive Unit recovered the body of a 7-year-old girl at the Palmiet River in the Overberg region, on Monday evening.

The NSRI’s Craig Lambinon said the girl disappeared under water while swimming with her sister at Palmiet River on Sunday.

Lambinon says the girl’s 10-year-old sister had managed to get out of the water and she was attended to by EMS paramedics and transported to hospital by EMS ambulance in a stable condition.

‘’NSRI rescue swimmers conducting sweeping line walk method search patterns, in waist deep water, the search close to the river mouth was a joint effort to focus on the search areas identified by Police divers. The tides, river currents and sea currents played a crucial role in this joint effort with growing fears that the child may be swept out of the river mouth and lost at sea.’’

‘’During the early hours of the evening the body of the 7 year old female was located and recovered in a corner of the Palmiet River near to the Palmiet River Mouth,’’ added NSRI spokesperson, Craig Lambinon.

Meanwhile, search efforts are continuing for a 17-year-old male who went missing in the surf line while swimming at Kleinmond Main Beach, on Sunday.

‘’It appears that 4 teenagers, on a school camp, believed to be from Montague, reportedly had reached a submerged sand bank that they were standing on when the missing teenager may have lost his footing on the slope of the sandbank before being swept away in sea currents,’’ said Lambinon.

The spokesperson added that the remaining 3 teenagers were able to get to the shore and they were not injured.

 


 Done By: Mitchum George

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