Cogta employee shot and killed in Mtubatuba home
A task team has been set up to investigate the murders of four family members in Mtubatuba.
Police say a woman, her mother and two young children were shot and killed in their KwaMtholo home in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson Jay Naicker says they had been asleep at the time.
"On arrival, police found a house that was torched with the deceased still inside.
"According to a survivor, around midnight, a knock was heard on the door and a suspect was spotted with a firearm in his hand. Shortly afterwards, the witness heard gunshots being fired in the house."
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One of the victims was a community development worker at the KZN Department of Cooperative Governance.
The department's chief director Nonala Ndlovu says MEC Sihle Zikalala has asked the police to spare no effort in finding the killers.
"He has sounded a call that these cruel acts must be stopped and calls upon community members to forward any information that may assist the investigation to the police."
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