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Rescue workers in George have retrieved the body of a 34-year-old woman whose car plunged down the notorious Voëlklip Lookout Point at Herolds Bay earlier on Thursday.
Police spokesperson Captain Malcolm Pojie says rescue workers are still on the scene searching for her two-year-old daughter.
He says the woman’s eight-year-old son, who managed to escape from the vehicle, is currently being treated at a hospital in George.
The name of the deceased and her children may not be released at this stage.
The last incident at Voëlklip was on 31 January 2020 when 'n 52-year-old man from Port Elizabeth was seen driving his vehicle off the cliff.
In October 2019, the 35-year-old Heidi Scheepers and her two children went missing and their vehicle was found at the bottom of a cliff when a search party noticed tyre tracks near a ledge at Voëlklip.
The body of her son, Hugo was found first and Heidi's body was retrieved from the water a few days later.
A post mortem concluded that they both drowned.
The body of her six-year-old daughter Cozette was never found.
