Police are investigating the death of an off-duty Mfuleni officer, his wife and two children in a fire.
Officer David Lekhethe, 48, his wife, and children aged eight and four years, were killed in the blaze believed to have been sparked from an electrical box on Friday. Two other children survived and are in hospital.
“Police reports indicate a tenant on the premises heard screams after 9.30pm coming from the main house and went to investigate. The tenant tried to gain access to the house.
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