THREE women have been raped and hacked to death with an axe in their house in Walmer township near Port Elizabeth in South Africa, reports said on Saturday. Their bodies were found early Saturday after a woman who lives nearby noticed blood on their doorstep and called for help, SABC public television news reported. “I was scared and sent somebody to go look. She came out and cried and said the people who were there are dead,” Vuyelwa Noma said. Police spokesman Johann van Greunen said a neighbour of the three women has been arrested, but the motive for the killing was not clear. Superintendent Van Greunen said a baby and a five-year-old child had been in the house while the women were attacked, but had not been hurt. – AFP
Saturday 27, 2001