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Eastern Cape police arrested two suspects for the murders of four men, aged between 38 and 75, in a rural village near Ngcobo.
Provincial police spokesperson, Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana, said that the first suspect was arrested on Thursday near the scene where the bodies of two neighbours, aged 44 and 75, were found.
He said the men, from the Mtintloni Administrative Area, had been shot.
“While at the scene, information surfaced about a suspect who was hiding in the nearby bushes. Police rushed to the bushes where the suspect was hiding and he was arrested,” Kinana said.
He said while they were on their way to the local police station, SAPS members were called back to the same village where the bodies of a 49-year-old Chief and his 38-year-old brother were also found.
Kinana said members of a task team established to investigate the four murders arrested the second suspect, aged 22, on Friday and seized two revolvers, a shotgun and ammunition.
The two are expected to appear in court on Monday.
Brigadier Kinana said police also received information of another person who had allegedly committed suicide in the same area but the circumstances were still unclear.
He said an inquest docket had been registered in this matter.
