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One person has been killed following a violent protest along the Rocklands Road outside Kariega.
Police spokesperson Captain Andre Beetge says a group of unknown people barricaded the road passing Gunguluza, shortly before 5 am on Thursday.
He says the protesters were busy uprooting a concrete lamp post to be used to barricade the road when it fell over and struck a man on the head.
Thirty-eight-year-old Nkosinathi Lukas, a local from the area, died on the scene.
Captain Beetge says a passenger bus and two bakkies were also set alight in what is believed to be a service delivery protest.
No arrests have been made and an inquest docket was opened into the death of Lukas.
