/ 19 April 1999

BREAKTHROUGH IN DECAPITATION CASE

POLICE on the weekend finally identified the first of five decapitated people believed to be the victims of a muti-murder gang operating in the small farming towns of Sundra and Delmas in Mpumalanga. Farm labourers stumbled on the most recent victim, a decomposing and headless middle-aged woman, two weeks ago. Three other badly decomposed and headless bodies have been found dumped in local fields around Sundra over the past six months. An equal number of heads were found dumped in streams and rivers near the neighbouring town of Delmas, almost 25km away. Only two of the heads have bodies.