East London | Wednesday
POLICE have launched a massive manhunt in the Dimbaza area of the Eastern Cape for two men who abducted four young friends from a Dimbaza house on Sunday, raped two of them and shot two dead.
The two dead teenagers, who were forced into a dam before they were shot, have been identified as Nontutuzelo Adams (18) and Dumisani Markus (17) of Dimbaza.
The other two women, whose names were withheld to protect them, were raped and managed to escape the next day.
The bodies of Adams and Markus were recovered floating in the dam on the outskirts of Dimbaza on Monday by police.
Both had been shot several times in the head and upper body. The calibre of the firearm used has not been established.
Acting Dimbaza station commissioner, Captain Nopumelelo Ngangelizwe, said on Tuesday the men entered the house where Adams, Markus and two other women were watching television at about 11pm on Sunday.
All were held at gunpoint while the house was ransacked and some items taken.
They were then forced at gunpoint to accompany the men on foot to bushes on the outskirts of Dimbaza.
Ngangelizwe said two of the women were raped at gunpoint and Markus and the third woman forced to look on.
”They were then taken to the nearby dam were Adams and Markus were forced to wade into the water before they were shot dead in cold blood.”
Ngangelizwe said the two other women, both aged 21, were then taken to Mamata where they were repeatedly raped in a shack before they managed to escape on Monday and alert police.
Acting on a tip-off on Tuesday police swooped on a house in Mamata in search of the men, who are known to them.
”They however managed to flee shortly before we arrived and are believed to be hiding in bushes in the vicinity,” Ngangelizwe said. – Sapa