After a devastating search for a six-year-old girl suspected to have drowned near Herolds Bay on the Garden Route, has been called off, police said on Tuesday.
It has been an emotional journey for the father of a young girl who was reported to have drowned alongside her mother and brother.
Capt Malcolm Pojie said Cozette Scheepers was still missing.
Her mother, Heidi, 35, and brother, Hugo, 2, drowned after their vehicle went over a cliff in the Voëlklip area on October 22.
Scheepers and the children took some time off at the beach like the usual times but they did not return home to their grieving father and husband.
The father went to notify the police that his family has not returned home, and the search was launched and after two days the search team recovered parts of the family’s VW Caravelle near Voëlklip which gave a lead to the two bodies found.
It was a hard to tell whether the family survived the impact. Hugo's body was recovered floating in the water close to the wreckage, while his mother’s body was found just off the Herolds Bay beach.
Despite the search ending, there will be a sporadic search by the patrols to help the emotional-wrecked father of the young girl.
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