Two people, including the suspect’s mother, survived the attack despite sustaining several stab wounds.
A man was arrested on Sunday, hours after he stabbed and killed five of his family members in Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal .The arrest was made after police launched a manhunt.Police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda said the attack occurred after the suspect visited neighbours, in the Bethany area of Bergville, with his uncle.Netshiunda said when they returned to the house, the suspect stabbed his mother while she was sitting on the couch. She managed to run outside, he said.
Netshiunda added that several domestic violence cases had previously been opened against the suspect. “All of them were later voluntarily withdrawn,” he said.Meanwhile, two more suspects thought to be involved in the massacre of seven family members in Hlokozi, Highflats, in KZN, were killed in a shootout with police in Umlazi on Saturday afternoon.
Two other suspects wanted in connection with the murders were killed in another shootout on St Faiths Road on Tuesday afternoon.“On Tuesday, two suspects were shot and fatally wounded when they also engaged in a shootout with police in an incident in which one suspect narrowly escaped arrest.
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