Mutilated body found at Shongweni Dam
The head and hands were hacked off a mutilated female body found in a dense thicket at the Shongweni Dam, in what appears to be a muti killing.
|||Durban - The mutilated body of an unidentified woman has been discovered at Shongweni Dam.
Her head and hands were hacked off and she was found naked. It appears the woman was the victim of a muti killing.
Police officers of the search and rescue unit made the find late on Monday, said police spokeswoman, Lieutenant Nqobile Gwala.
They recovered the body from a dense thicket on the KwaNdengezi side of the dam.
Gwala said a case of murder was opened at KwaNdengezi police station but no arrests had been made.
Late last year, 21-year-old Nawaaz Khan’s decapitated body was found in a bush near his home in Gandhinagar, on the South Coast.
His head was found later in a nearby gumtree plantation.
Soon after, the decapitated body of a woman was found in the area. The remains of her head were found in a shopping bag.
Three men were arrested but only Thandowakhe Duma, who was a friend of Khan’s, and Elias Mchunu, a local gardener and traditional healer, face charges.
Duma and Mchunu will go on trial in August for two counts of robbery with aggravating circumstances, two of murder, one of kidnapping and assault.
In Thamboville, near Pietermaritzburg, Siphelele Chamane, 21, was charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Simangele Khanyile, 18, after he allegedly chopped her up, decapitated her and set her alight with petrol and dumped her body parts in the area.
Court proceedings are continuing in Chamane’s case.
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