North West: Potchefstroom: Today, 21 March 2017, Police Divers in the province retrieved a 12-year-old boy’s body from a dam in Geysdorp near Delareyville.
The retrieval of the body emanated from a tireless search by the Divers that started yesterday, 20 March 2017 in the morning following a drowning incident that occurred on Sunday, 19 March 2017. It is alleged that the victim and four other boys fell from a tube that was being pulled by a boat. According to information, four boys aged between 12 and 13 were successfully rescued by the boat operator while the victim drowned.
A case of culpable homicide has been opened for investigation and no one has been arrested at this stage.