Hennops River tragedy: Movements of missing FS cops revealed

JOHANNESBURG - Details of the movements of three Free State cops on the morning they went missing have been revealed.

In an exclusive report, EWN outlined how investigators traced the three officers and their vehicle using signals from their cellphones and the vehicle tracking system.

READ: CCTV clues and tracking signals: Timeline of events leading to Free State cops' Hennops River tragedy

The bodies of constables Cebekhulu Linda, Keamogetswe Buys and Boipelo Senoge were recovered from the Hennops River in Centurion this week.

Police recovered a further two bodies in separate searches.

Constables Cebekhulu Linda, Keamogetswe Buys and Boipelo Senoge left Bloemfontein late on Wednesday evening last week.

They were travelling to Polokwane, where Linda and Buys had been deployed.

Senoge was on leave but accompanied the pair as it’s understood that she was romantically involved with Linda.

Investigators tracked their movements from the Free State and into Gauteng.

In the early hours of Thursday morning, they stopped to fill up at a petrol station in Lenasia before travelling towards Centurion.

But just after 2 am, all of their cellphones, as well as the vehicle tracking signals, went silent.

It’s suspected they crashed into the Hennops River, about 10km from where investigators were last able to locate them.

The white VW Polo they were travelling in has yet to be recovered as search and rescue crews continue to comb parts of the river.