Residents of informal settlement fear crime surge as another body is found in the area | News24

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The discovery of a body of an unidentified man at the Victoria Lodge informal settlement has residents urgently seeking to remove dense overgrown bush that they say has been drawing criminals into the community. | ThePeoplesPost

arrived at the scene, a police vehicle and two police officers inspected the scene.

“It is the body of a man but we don’t know him, we can’t see his face because the body was lying face down, but he is not one of us from the community.”Killian added that just the previous day, residents dismantled two structures that had popped up over night. “Two weeks ago, we went to the ward councillor, myself and two other people from the community. We had a meeting and asked if they can’t remove this dense bush for us because all sorts of people come here and it was never like that before.Last year, three men were shot dead execution style at the entrance of the informal settlement next to the M5 highway.

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