Another farmer has died in a farm attack in the Free State in just less than a week.
Police spokesperson Thandi Mbambo says they responded to a farm attack at Thelma farm outside Odendaalsrus on Wednesday night where a farmer and a suspect were declared dead on the scene.
Mbambo says two men arrived at the farm while the farmer's wife was sitting outside.
She allegedly shot one of the men and as her husband came out of the house, he was shot by the other suspect who then fled.
Both the suspect and the farmer, identified as Mark Regal, died at the scene.
Meanwhile, Free State MEC of Agriculture, William Bulwane, has condemned the spate of killings of farmers in the province.
The 56-year-old Henneman farmer Pieter Hills was shot and killed on his Swartkop farm last week and his 26-year-old son Eddie was critically injured in the attack.
He passed away in a Johannesburg hospital on Wednesday.
The 37-year-old Tebogo Machakela who was shot on his farm in Odendalsrus by an unknown number of suspects in August this year, died in hospital last week.
The 60-year-old Dave Wessels from Viljoenskroon was found dead in his bedroom in October following a robbery.
