A man fell more than 15 metres to his death after he was pushed off a bridge after an alleged argument with his friend.
|||Cape Town - A Cape Town man fell more than 15m to his death after he was pushed off a bridge.
It is alleged that the man had an argument with his friend, who pushed him.
Witnesses tell the Daily Voice the victim hit the ground close to where some of his family members were standing.
On Wednesday, Brackenfell police were called out to the scene on the R300 bridge near the N1, where they found the body of the 42-year-old lying in a ditch.
People who live in the bushes near the bridge reportedly told the cops they had seen the man being pushed off.
Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk told the Daily Voice: “On Brackenfell SAPS members’ arrival they found the body of a 42-year-old man from Table View.
“An inquest docket was opened… to determine the circumstances surrounding his death.”
The incident caused a delay in traffic on the busy road on Wednesday.
Daily Voice