Body of hijacked Cape Town businessman found

Johannesburg - The body of abducted Cape Town businessman Imraan Daya has been found in Mitchells Plain in Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Sunday.

"This office can confirm that the vehicle of a 27-year-old man was hijacked in Lansdowne on Friday evening by armed male suspects," spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Andrè Traut said in a statement.

"His body was discovered yesterday [Saturday] in the Wolfgat Nature Reserve in Mitchells Plain after he was shot. The circumstances surrounding the murder are being investigated and no one has been arrested as yet."

Daya was buried on Sunday.