The South African Police Service is mourning the loss of three Eastern Cape members who were killed in separate incidents over the past fortnight.
National police spokesperson, Colonel Brenda Muridili, said all the members were off duty when they were murdered.
She said on Monday the body of 47-year-old Captain Mzikayise Kelemane was found by a community member in the fields near Addo Road in Port Elizabeth.
“The Captain was found in his bakkie with a bullet wound to his head. He was attached to Crime Intelligence in Port Elizabeth,” Muridili said.
She said his wife had reported him missing at the police station the day before his body was discovered and a case of murder was registered.
Meanwhile, a member attached to the Mthatha Public Order Police Unit, 34-year-old Constable Thobani Sitolo, was gunned down on 12 October by suspects who were trying to steal a friend’s car.
Colonel Muridili said in the third incident on 1 October, a female police Constable Ntloko, was wounded when gunmen in a bakkie blocked her vehicle before opening fire.
The member, who was driving home with a relative from her police station in Libode, succumbed to her injuries in hospital on Monday.
The motives behind the three murders is still under investigation and no arrests were made.
