A 35-year-old man was arrested on March 2 for allegedly killing a 53-year-old woman, Mathilda Siwele, in the Justicia Trust in Bushbuckridge, earlier that day.

According to a provincial police spokesperson, Brigadier Selvy Mohlala, the Calcutta police had received information about the body of a woman at a certain liquor outlet in the area.

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“Emergency personnel were summoned and responded to the complaint. Upon arrival, they found the body of a woman lying on the ground. She was certified dead on the scene by paramedics. A murder case was opened, and after an investigation was conducted, it was discovered that the victim had been beaten to death with a wooden mortar by a certain man who fled the scene afterwards,” he said.

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Mohlala said the police traced the suspect to his residence and arrested him. He was charged with murder and will appear in the Mkhuhlu Magistrate’s Court on Monday March 6.