Family massacre survivor under guard
The teenager who cheated death after his family were brutally hacked to death in KZN is under police guard.
|||Durban - The teenager who cheated death after his family were brutally hacked to death in the early hours of Wednesday in Msinisini, on the South Coast, is under police guard.
Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi, Hawks spokesman and acting spokesman for acting national police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Kgomotso Phahlane, told the Daily News that Minenhle Mhlongo, 18, was recovering in hospital.
“We cannot reveal where he is. The people who did this to the rest of his family, they are clever. They will read in the paper where he is and return to finish the job,” he said. “We must think of his safety first.”
Two men, aged 26 and 28, were arrested, but the possibility of more assailants could not be ruled out.
On Thursday police said a group of men had attacked the family.
Police were still investigating the circumstances leading up to the murder.
“There is no update at the moment.”
Mhlongo was the only survivor in an attack that killed Mathinga Moses Mncwabe, 70, his wife, Shonisile, 60, and their daughter, Nontobeko Mncwabe, 35, Amanda, 15, and Amahle Mncwabe, 13, in the attack.
Three children – Andile Mncwabe and Philasande Mncwabe, both only a year old, and Aphiwe Mhlongo, three – also perished.
The suspects, who were arrested soon after the incident in which the relatives were hacked to death, were due to appear in the Turton Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
Police said on Wednesday the arrested suspects were found in possession of blood-stained clothes and shoes and a jacket, which was worn by one of the suspects, and found shoved inside a pit toilet.
The suspects, police said, allegedly accused the family of practising witchcraft.
Daily News
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