Tragic couple Lynette and John Rodgers who drowned while on honeymoon in South Africa

A wreath-laying service is being held in South Africa in memory of a Co Down couple who tragically drowned while on honeymoon.

Lynette and John Rodgers, from Holywood, County Down, drowned at Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape last Friday.

The service is being held there on this morning and the media have been allowed to attend.

Their families hope their bodies will be returned to Northern Ireland later this week.

Mr Rodgers, who was 28, was originally from Ballygowan, and worked for a printing company in Holywood.

His bride Lynette, 26, was a physiotherapist.