THE body of the man suspected of killing 30-year-old University of Witwatersrand student, Olorato Mongale, was removed from a block of flats in Arbour Road, Amanzimtoti, after he died during a shoot-out with police in the early hours of Friday, May 30.

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Mongale had left her home in Athol, Gauteng, and went on a first date with an unknown man on May 25. Her body was found three hours later in Lombardy East, dumped near a road. From video footage, police managed to trace the number plate of the car that picked her up to KwaMashu township in Durban. Police also released names and photographs of three people suspected of being involved in the murder.

KZN police commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi said police worked through the night looking for the suspects, and leads pointed them to an apartment complex in Amanzimtoti. Mkhwanazi said the suspect had gone to the complex to hire a car from a person he had hired one from before, who lives there. However, the person he intended to hire a car from had seen him in the news and advised the suspect to hand himself over to the police.

“When our team arrived there, they were able to get into the apartment. Unfortunately, there was an engagement inside, and the suspect was fatally wounded,” said Mkhwanazi.

The other two men are still at large.

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