Search continues for a missing teenager in Kommetjie

Lusanda Bill
13 December 2013

The National Sea Rescue Institute in Kommetjie is today continuing the search for a male teenager who has been feared to have drowned at Kommetjie Beach. 

The teenager is 13-years-old and resides in Ocean View.

NSRI Spokesperson Craig Lambinon said it is believed while he was swimming he was caught in a rip current and disappeared under water; his family was on the beach with him at the time.

Lambinon said by late last night the teenager had not been found and police have opened an investigation into the incident.