/ 24 April 2000

DANISH TOURISTS MURDERED

TWO Danish tourists have been shot and killed on the Pilansberg-Sun City road near Rustenburg. North West police spokesman Captain Garwin Geldenhuys said the two men, aged 33 and 37 years, stopped their car on the side of the road at around 7.30pm on Wednesday night. Shots were fired at them from a light delivery van that pulled up alongside them. The two Danes, who were sitting in their car, were killed instantly. The pair had arrived in Cape Town on April 14 and had apparently played golf at various courses around the country. The two men were believed to be friends. The murderers fled the scene without robbing the victims and police say they are therefore puzzled by the motive for the crime.