Hijackers murder father of three LuisDeFaria42 by throwing him off Cape Town bridge
2013-06-14 - Cape Town - Luis de Faria, 42 didn't jump, says his widow Tania: he was thrown off the R300 highway bridge near Cape Town by three hijackers.
Widow Tania de Faria, 41, spoke to Afrikaans daily Die Burger after she was told by the SAPS that her husband's body was found in a ditch alongside the N1 highway. She last saw her husband when he left their Welgemoed home in her car on Wednesday morning.
“Police said the car was hijacked by two men and a woman. They then threw his body off the R300 bridge,” she said.
The couple have three children, who are said to be very emotional following their father’s death.
“A correction about his death needs to be placed. He didn’t jump. The published information is not true,” said De Faria.
According to a report in "The Daily Voice", the white South African man "was pushed off the bridge during an argument with a friend."
(report: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Man-dies-after-being-pushed-off-bridge-20130613)
However clearly this also was not the case: the SAPS have arrested three people In Kimberley where the hijacked car silver Opel Zafira, was found on Thursday morning.
The SAPS are investigating a case of murder.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Hijackers-threw-man-off-Cape-Town-bridge-20130614
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similar incident in September 18 2012:
SA-Indian high school teacher Kavisha Seevnarain survives being thrown 67metres off N2 bridge over Umkomaas River, KZN
2012-09-18 09:37
The N2 bridge over the Umkomaas river from which Kavisha Seevnarain was thrown by hijackers. (File, The Witness)
Bridge arrest: Dad praises police
Durban - A KwaZulu-Natal woman has spoken out about the night she miraculously survived being thrown 67m off a bridge by hijackers who wanted to prevent her from testifying against them.
Kavisha Seevnarain referred to her saviour, whom she called “the man with the blue umbrella”, saying she would always remember and thank Bongani Duma for coming to her aid after she lay with a fractured pelvis and broken ribs at the bottom of the uMkhomazi River bridge.
Seevnarain had fallen from the equivalent of a 20-storey high building and speculated that her padded anorak might have helped to slow her fall.
She told the Sunday Argus how while she was falling, she thought: “I fell, and fell, and as the water rushed closer, I thought: ‘I might be going to die, but I can fly!’”
After dragging her body out of the river and being helped by Duma, she went on to testify against the four men who had hijacked her, seeing them sentenced to long prison terms.
It was a slow recovery but the high school teacher learned to walk again and is about to complete her MBA degree.
“It was not my time,” she said. “There was a reason I survived, and I am determined to find it.”
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Woman-tells-how-she-survived-being-thrown-67m-20120918
KwaZulu-Natal bridge robbers get 47 years
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/KwaZulu-Natal-bridge-robbers-get-47-years-20101102
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