Man kills two young women
Woman and her cousin stabbed to death after being hit with a hammer.
David Matsena
A Winterveldt man stabbed his girlfriend and her cousin to death on Tuesday after hitting them with a hammer.
Police spokesperson Constable Petunia Chabangu said the man then called his girlfriend’s mother, telling her where to find her daughter’s dead body.
“He struck both women with a hammer on the head and stabbed the girlfriend more than 15 times in the upper body,” Chabangu said.
“The cousin was stabbed nine times in the upper body and the head.”
Both women were 20 years old.
The man fled to his family in Winterveldt, near Dube Police Station, taking the couple’s two children, aged two and three.
He was arrested on Tuesday afternoon and would appear in the Ga-Rankuwa Magistrate’s Court soon.
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