Fire kills couple in informal settlement home
GONUBIE police have opened an inquest docket after a couple died when their home caught fire this past weekend.
The incident happened at an informal settlement near Gonubie Farmer’s Hall outside East London.
Speaking to the Daily Dispatch, East London police spokesman LieutenantColonel Mtati Tana said the matter had been reported on Saturday morning.
Buffalo City Metro ward 50 committee member Thembisile Matelise said the couple’s children, whose ages are not known, survived the incident.
No other shack was reported to have caught fire, according to Tana.
● In Mdantsane, Vuyani Pango, 70, is fighting for his life at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital after he was found stabbed in the head inside his NU6 house yesterday morning.
Pango was alone at the time of the incident. His neighbour Thembisa Alexander said thugs broke his main bedroom window and later cut open a burglar door to gain entry.
She said Pango was in a poor condition.
“He’s struggling to breathe because of the severe injuries he suffered.”
● A man handed himself over to the police after he shot and killed two men in a road rage incident in Butterworth yesterday.
A third man survived the shooting but is in a critical condition in an East London hospital.
The two victims, aged 24 and 29, cannot be named until their next of kin have been notified of their deaths, police spokesman Captain Jackson Manatha said yesterday.
The fatal shooting took place outside a tavern in Zitulele township at 3.30am yesterday.
● In Mthatha, two men were stabbed to death by a 20-year-old in New Payne on Saturday night while a third man escaped with stab wounds to the face.
Police spokeswoman Captain Dineo Koena said five men heard a woman, who was about to be mugged, screaming for help and when they asked the 20-year-old what he was doing, he took out a knife and stabbed them. The two men died on the spot. The suspect was arrested and faces two counts of murder and a charge of intent to cause grievous bodily harm. — DDR