/ 31 August 2004

Limpopo man ‘hangs his three sons’

A Limpopo man has allegedly hanged his three sons, aged three, five and eight, at Mbilwi near Thohoyandou, police said on Tuesday.

Police spokesperson Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the man took the boys into a room on Monday at 8pm, one after the other, and killed them by hanging them from rafters of the roof. The man left a suicide note and fled the scene.

Mushavhanamadi said the man had chased away his wife to her parents’ home at the time of the murders. The woman had also had a protection order against the man.

Police are looking for the man. – Sapa