Detectives questioning four people linked to the disappearance of Joshlin Smith, police confirm
The search for the little girl enters its 16th day on Wednesday.
Missing 6-year-old Joshlin Smith. Picture: Western Cape Missing Persons Unit/Supplied.
CAPE TOWN - Western Cape police have confirmed that detectives are currently questioning four people as part of an extensive investigation into the disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin Smith in Saldanha Bay.
The search for the little girl enters its 16th day on Wednesday.
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Smith vanished from her family home in Middelpos after being left in the care of her mother's boyfriend.
"Two men and two women are currently being questioned by a team of Western Cape detectives. The four are between the ages of 26 and 34.
“It is envisaged with the process being undertaken that light will be shed as to what happened to the six-year-old girl. With the investigation unfolding, arrests are on the cards," said the police’s Novela Potelwa.
Meanwhile, Western Cape Police Commissioner Thembisile Patekile said the questioning of people followed as soon as the frantic search for the little girl began.
"The questioning will lead us now to where..whatever leads that we find, we'll follow those leads, even the fact that there are people alleging that this child was sold, that we will follow."