Bodies of two teens found after being swept out to sea

Bodies of two teens found after being swept out to sea

The teenagers were part of a group of foreign nationals who lived at the Methodist Church in the city for several weeks.


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The bodies of two more foreign teenagers have been found after they were swept out to sea on Sunday. 


National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) spokesperson, Craig Lambinon says the search continues for an 18-year old also from Burundi. 


"Shortly after the 15-year-old female was located at Rocklands beach during an ongoing search, police divers located and recovered the body of the 16-year-old male," says Lambinon. 


Both the teenagers were from the Congo.


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The teenagers were part of a group of foreign nationals who lived at the Methodist Church in the city for several weeks.


They were moved to the church after police forcibly removed them from the premises they had been occupying outside the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Cape Town.


Lambinon say the search continues for an 18-year-old man who remains missing. 

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