/ 6 August 2001

SUSPECTED MUTI-MURDERER’S FAMILY PERSECUTED

AN angry mob has hounded the entire family of a suspected muti-killer from their Northern Province village and threatened to kill anyone who returns. The mob of hundreds of Marishane villagers descended on the suspected murderers Nebo homestead at the weekend after police found the partially gutted body of six-year-old Curtis Puwane in his rondavel last week. The unnamed suspect (36) wasnt home when police raided the homestead last Tuesday, or when the mob stormed his relatives houses at the weekend. Police spokesman Captain Mohale Ramatseba stressed that Puwanes body had not been mutilated yet, and said that police found the boy wrapped in a blood soaped sheet, with his throat and chest slit open. The boy was last see alive chatting to the suspect on Tuesday morning. – African Eye News