/ 6 September 2004

Five-year-old girl killed in Cape Town

The body of a five-year-old girl who went missing on Saturday was found on Sunday in the Lower Crossroads area of Cape Town, SABC news reported.

Police said Sihle Rhani disappeared on Saturday but her family did not report it to police and went searching for her themselves.

A passerby made the gruesome discovery in bushes opposite Symphony Way on Sunday.

Police investigators and forensic experts were called to the scene, but would not divulge how she was killed. – Sapa