While searching for a missing person on Monday 1, November, the KZN emergency workers discovered a body in a river.

Paul Herbst from IPSS Medical rescue said they had been helping SAPS K9 Search and Rescue to search for a missing person in Groutville. The person has been missing for three days.

“During the search, K9 Odi and K9 Dante indicated on a scent near a river. K9’s and their handlers entered the river and located the body of an unknown male.

“However the body recovered was not that of the missing person who was being sought.’’

Herbst said the body was decomposed.

“The search for the person will continue.”

The body of the deceased was handed over to local SAPS for investigation.