On Friday, OFM News reported that the body of one of the three people who was missing, was retrieved by search and rescue officials next to a river, 15km from the town.

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According, to the Free State Emergency Medical Services' (EMS) spokesperson, Sipho Towa, the body of the man who was discovered on Friday 30 September 2022, has not been identified yet because it was decomposed. He says it’s understood that officials at the Free State Mortuary in Bloemfontein will try to run tests tomorrow to find out if he is related to a particular family, who will be present to try and identify the deceased.

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Towa says these tests will include DNA testing. The death toll has now increased to two. This now means that one last person is still missing.

The 11 September 2022 disaster left scores injured and over 200 people destitute or homeless.

Many of them were housed in different shelters in Bloemfontein, Jagersfontein and Fauresmith outside the town.

Following this tragic disaster, which damaged infrastructure valued at millions, Premier Sisi Ntombela assembled officials from the Emergency Medical Services College to assist with the rescue mission and search.

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