Police in Cacadu (formerly Lady Frere) have arrested four men, including a local Ward Councillor for the alleged involvement in the gruesome murders of seven people in a mob justice attack.
Spokesperson, Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana, says members swooped in on the suspects aged between 43 and 60, in the Zingqolweni Locality, after midnight on Thursday.
He says the arrests follow after young four men were burnt to death in an open veld early on Wednesday evening.
Kinana says shortly after members responded to the alert, they were called to a nearby forest in the Maqhashu Administrative Area, where the bodies of two other men were found hanging from trees.
He says a seventh victim managed to escape and was rushed to hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.
Brigadier Kinana says one of the suspects will appear in the Lady Frere Magistrates Court on Friday, while the other three will appear in court on Monday.
He says the motive for the murders of the men aged between 21 and 27 is unknown at this point, but more arrests are imminent.
