Elderly woman brutally killed with a hammer in Tongaat
The woman's granddaughter witnessed a man assaulting her grandmother with a hammer and tried to stop him but he overpowered her.
A 13-year-old girl witnessed her 63-year-old grandmother being gruesomely murdered with a hammer in Fairbreeze, Tongaat, on Monday morning.
The elderly woman was found lying in a pool of blood with assault wounds to the head in her home, said the police.
“The girl who was found at the house and when questioned, she said that while she was hanging up her clothes she heard her grandmother screaming for help.
“She went to check and found an unknown man attacking her grandmother with a hammer.
“She said she tried to fight the man but he overpowered, pushed her out and locked the door,” said provincial police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele.
The girl said she left the house to call for help and when she returned with her neighbours the man had fled.
Tongaat police are investigating a case of murder.
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