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South Africa - Cape Town - 7 July 2020 - Just before midnight on Monday evening WSAR was alerted to a vehicle which was parked on Lower Tafelberg Road. The user of that vehicle's friends had raised the alarm that this trail runner may be on Table Mountain. Members of WSAR got together and they in conjunction with the overdue person's friends decided to do a search of the contour path and the path down to the blockhouse. A vehicle also drove the road towards the block house. Weather conditions were not good. Shortly after midnight the teams the family reported that the missing person' s cellphone appeared to be on the Clifton side of Lion's Head. Further searchers moved up from a temporary base at Nettleton Road. The search on that side had no result. Fresh searches were done on the contour path. The teams stood down just before 04:00 on Tuesday morning. The search was resumed this morning with 5 teams out. The Dept of Health/ AMS helicopter has joined the search which is being co-ordinated from a command post close to the lower cable station. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA)

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Today in South Africa - 13 July 2020
South Africa - Cape Town - 7 July 2020 - Just before midnight on Monday evening WSAR was alerted to a vehicle which was parked on Lower Tafelberg Road. The user of that vehicle's friends had raised the alarm that this trail runner may be on Table Mountain. Members of WSAR got together and they in conjunction with the overdue person's friends decided to do a search of the contour path and the path down to the blockhouse. A vehicle also drove the road towards the block house. Weather conditions were not good. Shortly after midnight the teams the family reported that the missing person' s cellphone appeared to be on the Clifton side of Lion's Head. Further searchers moved up from a temporary base at Nettleton Road. The search on that side had no result. Fresh searches were done on the contour path. The teams stood down just before 04:00 on Tuesday morning. The search was resumed this morning with 5 teams out. The Dept of Health/ AMS helicopter has joined the search which is being co-ordinated from a command post close to the lower cable station. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA)