/ 18 March 1999

AUSTRIAN JOURNALIST MURDERED

AUSTRIAN journalist Peter Cvetko was shot dead after his car broke down in Houghton Drive, Johannesburg on Wednesday morning. Cvetko (39) was a temporary resident in South Africa. Police spokesperson Inspector Mark Reynolds said he was on his way home from visiting friends in Hillbrow when the car broke down. He called the Automobile Association on his cellphone and they found him dead in the car about 15 minutes later. He had been shot in the right side of the head and his right arm.