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Search teams recover vehicle with two bodies from Crocodile River

Police and the SAPS Search and Rescue Unit responded to the scene and located the submerged vehicle with two occupants trapped inside.

Police and search-and-rescue teams are recovering two bodies from a vehicle that plunged into the Crocodile River in Mpumalanga early on Sunday morning.

According to police, officers received reports at about 4 am of a white vehicle that had entered the river near the intersection of the University of Mpumalanga and KaMagugu roads.

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Police and the SAPS Search and Rescue Unit responded to the scene and located the submerged vehicle with two occupants trapped inside.

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The recovery operation is still underway and the circumstances surrounding the incident are being investigated.

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