North Rand police on Monday arrested a man after they found human organs in a bag he was carrying at a taxi rank in Etwatwa, Benoni.
”Police officers from the Etwatwa police station … confronted a man at a taxi rank carrying a black bag,” Superintendent Eugene Opperman said. ”Inside they found human lungs, intestines … a brain.”
Investigations led police to a house in Etwatwa, where they found the body of a woman in her thirties, buried beneath the floor of one of the bedrooms.
Opperman said the corpse was two or three days old. She has not yet been identified and the motive for the murder is also not known.
”She was cut open, so we must assume that it [the organs] are hers, but tests will still be done to confirm this.”
The 29-year-old man will appear in the Benoni Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday to face a murder charge. — Sapa