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Suspected robber found dead on railway tracks

He was found with cellphones when police inspected.
A man’s body was found lying along Tygerberg station railway tracks on Wednesday morning. Police on the scene told GroundUp that they suspected the man was a robber who fell off the train or was pushed off by commuters.

“We found some cellphones and an ID that doesn’t belong to him when we searched him,” said a police officer on the scene.

Tygerberg station railway

A Prasa official who didn’t want to be named told GroundUp that officials had discovered the body when they arrived for work around 5am.

Platform 2, which is frequently used by trains to Cape Town, was not in use.

At around 11am GroundUp saw paramedics covering the body with white sheets for removal from the scene while commuters were watching from a distance.

Source: The Citizen