Missing Mpumalanga cop found alive
Mpumalanga police have found female cop Baswabile Silowe following her disappearance on Sunday afternoon.
Silowe was reported missing after she had accepted a lift to work in Lydenberg from a group of unknown men.
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The 26-year-old had informed her sister that she was travelling to work with the group.
Mpumalanga police spokesperson Leonard Hlathi says the woman was found in Calcutta on Monday evening.
“She told police that she recalls being covered with a cloth on her face by one of the men in the car that had offered her a lift back to Lydenburg, where she became unconscious thereafter.
‘’She also relayed that she later regained consciousness only to find she had been ditched in the bushes with her hands and feet tight with ropes and had been robbed of all her belongings.”
Police have launched a manhunt for the suspects.
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