No arrests after Wepener farm attack
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Police in Wepener say the number of suspects and what is missing from a farmhouse in which a 48-year-old farmer and a worker were shot dead yesterday is still being investigated. Police spokesperson, Yanga Ngcukana says the bodies of the farmer and a house worker were discovered inside his house by a neighbour at around 14:00 yesterday.
The names of the deceased will be made public as soon as police confirms that family members have been informed. Meanwhile a farmer in the district who asked to stay anonymous says the murders are a great loss to the community and the farming industry as a whole in South Africa. According to him the deceased was an outgoing man with a kind hart. He was a good husband and father. Meanwhile in a second attack, a farmer whose elderly mother lives with him, was murdered on his farm Elim between Ladybrand and the Maseru border post yesterday afternoon. The farmer's mother was unharmed.
The names of the deceased will be made public as soon as police confirms that family members have been informed. Meanwhile a farmer in the district who asked to stay anonymous says the murders are a great loss to the community and the farming industry as a whole in South Africa. According to him the deceased was an outgoing man with a kind hart. He was a good husband and father. Meanwhile in a second attack, a farmer whose elderly mother lives with him, was murdered on his farm Elim between Ladybrand and the Maseru border post yesterday afternoon. The farmer's mother was unharmed.
