Fowl play? ‘Body’ in eMalahleni river shown to be chicken in dress
A man contacted the local police after he noticed clothing in the Spookspruit River on the R555.
Authorities responded to a disturbing discovery near the Old Middelburg Road in eMalahleni this morning, where a man initially feared a human body had been dumped in a river.
He noticed what appeared to be clothing in Spookspruit River on the R555, and promptly alerted the police.
Upon investigation, Captain Eddie Hall confirmed that the object in question was not a human body.
“It was a dress with a chicken and money that was dumped in the dam,” Hall said.
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