Last of drowned rugby players' bodies recovered
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JOHANNESBURG -- South African police say the missing bodies of five rugby players who drowned when they went to cool down following a practice session on a beach have been recovered.
The South African Press Association reports that Eastern Cape police say the final body was found on Saturday close to a river mouth near the south-coast city of Port Elizabeth. Twenty-one people, many of them members of the Motherwell Rugby Club from a nearby impoverished township, were swept out to sea in strong currents off Port Elizabeth last Sunday.
Fifteen people were rescued by lifeguards, while a sixth man was found drowned on the same day.
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According to SAPA, police say the first of the missing men's bodies was found on Thursday and three were recovered on Friday.