The body of one of three boys who were swept down the Jukskei river was found in Bruma Lake on Thursday morning, Johannesburg emergency services said.
The body was found while a team were conducting a search around the lake with dogs.
Emergency Services spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said he could not release the boy’s name.
A Sapa reporter on the scene said that 10 divers and two dinghies were spread out in a long line. The divers were holding hands and methodically trawling the water in one direction then turning around to repeat the exercise in the opposite direction.
The boys from the Bertrams area– Mark Strydom (12) his brother Kallie (13) and Kyle Hasson (13) — were apparently swept down the river on Wednesday afternoon after a storm.
They were seeking shelter from the rain under a bridge near Ellis Park when the river came down in flood. – Sapa