3 Kroonstad Security Guards Found Alive After Mysteriously Going Missing While on Duty, Found With Hands Bound

3 Kroonstad Security Guards Found Alive After Mysteriously Going Missing While on Duty, Found With Hands Bound

  • Three female security guards were apparently abducted on night duty at Seeisoville Stadium in Kroonstad under mysterious circumstances
  • The disappearances were reported when the morning shift arrived to relieve the women and could not find them on the premises
  • The police and community members scoured the area and eventually found the security staff bound and disorientated on the outskirts of Maokeng

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Security guards who went missing have been found
Three female security guards who mysteriously disappeared while on duty at Seeisoville Stadium in Maokeng, Kroonstad, have been found. Image: @SAPoliceService
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KROONSTAD - Three female security guards who mysteriously disappeared while working at the Seeisoville Stadium on Wednesday, 17 August, have been found.

The women were reported missing when the morning shift came to relieve them from their posts and discovered that the security guards were nowhere to be found.

SABC News reported that the women’s cellphones and personal effects were in the guardroom, but the morning shift could not find the night shift guards anywhere.

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Police called for the public to help in the search for the missing women and community members came out in their numbers to join the police’s search effort, TimesLIVE reports.

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Police spokesperson Sgt Mahlomola Kareli said the women were found bound and disorientated in Lovedale on the outskirts of Maokeng.

They were taken to the hospital to receive medical attention for their disoriented condition.

South Africans disturbed by apparent abduction of the 3 women

South Africans are concerned about the direction that the country is moving in. Many voiced their concerns on social media.

Here are some comments:

@Driza84 said:

“Nah, we are in the deepest hell I tell you!”

@KatlegoKaG commented:

“South Africa is depressing and Bheki Cele is still the Minister of POLICE.”

@fazmal_nao posted:

“Nothing is sacred.”

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Police hunt for 6 suspected kidnappers of 6-year-old boy in Cape Town, family pleads for his safe return

Briefly News previously reported that a family from Kensington in Cape Town is inconsolable after their six-year-old boy was kidnapped by six men on 17 August.

Shahnawaz Asghar, who is only six years old, was taken while outside his home on 9th Street. The kidnapping occurred before 8 am.

IOL reported that a spokesperson for the family, Ms Joubert, was given permission to speak on the behalf of the family by young Shahnawaz’s mother, Shumaila Asghar. Joubert said the family is desperate to have Shahnawaz returned to them unharmed.

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Lerato Mutsila (Current affairs editor) Lerato Mutsila is a journalist with 3 years of experience. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Pearson Institute of Higher Education in 2020, majoring in broadcast journalism, political science and communication. Lerato joined the Briefly News current affairs desk in August 2022. Mutsila is also a fellow of the 2021/2022 Young African Journalists Acceleration programme, which trained African journalists in climate journalism. You can contact Lerato at lerato.mutsila@breifly.co.za