Five-year-old boy who had gone missing, found dead in Tzaneen

South Africa

A five year old boy who had been reported missing earlier this month, was found dead in Tzaneen by the Limpopo police.

Khaya Restoration Rikhotso’s body was found on Thursday‚ said Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe.

“The deceased was allegedly found by a passerby in some bushes following a massive search operation by the police‚ the family and the local community. The circumstances around the victim’s death is subject to the ongoing police investigations‚” Ngoepe said.

“This discovery follows his disappearance on the 6th September. It is alleged that his grandmother saw him playing at the gate inside the yard. Later on‚ she checked on him and discovered that he was nowhere to be found‚” said Ngoepe.

Investigations are still going on to determine what the cause of his death was.

This news comes just days after the body of another missing boy from Durban was found in a ravine.

A decomposing body was found by the police and security guards‚ who were led on a pursuit deep into a bush by men who had robbed a salon in Phoenix on Monday last week.

A search dog sent to track the robbers had deviated from their scent –  till they lead to the decomposed remains of a boy still clad in school uniform. The body was found near the home of butcher Mohammed Ebrahim‚ who was linked to the boy’s disappearance on July 17.

Ebrahim‚ of Longbury Drive in Phoenix‚ was arrested three days after Miguel was last seen. When he was detained‚ he was found in possession of Miguel’s original birth certificate and Miguel’s mother’s identity document.

According to CCTV footage, Miguel was seen at KFC with Ebrahim‚ an acquaintance of the family for about two weeks‚ on the day of his disappearance.

SAPS spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele said that Ebrahim will now face an additional charge of murder.

Earlier this week‚ the police released the crime statistics for the 2017/18 financial year which revealed the shocking number of crime against children. Statistics revealed that a total of 985 children had been murdered across the country in the last financial year. Most of them were boys. Of the murdered children‚ 691 were boys while 294 were girls.

The most children (279) that were recorded killed, were from the Western Cape‚ followed by KwaZulu-Natal (221) and the Eastern Cape (180).

-Times Live

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