Hlomuka pleads for community tip-offs in Taylors Halt mass killing
Msunduzi is urging community members to team up with the police to help reduce violent crime, including mass killings.
This was after 10 men were burnt to death in a home in Taylors Halt.
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Gunmen stormed the RDP house over the weekend and used flammable agents to set 15 people alight.
The local municipality says the attack sent shockwaves through a community stilling reeling from the mass killing of 10 members of the Memela family in iMbali last month.
Thando Biyela, who is with KZN Community Safety and Liason, says MEC Sipho Hlomuka has condemned the latest attack.
"The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Transport, Community Safety and Liaison, Sipho Hlomuka, has called on the community structures and the people of uMsunduzi Local Municipality in Pietermaritzburg to work with the police in arresting the increasing scourge of mass killings.
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"The incident has sent a shock wave to the community as this is a second incident that happened few weeks apart, within the same policing precinct. In April 2023, 10 people were attacked and killed. In the April shooting, suspects were arrested within a matter of hours after the tip of by members of the community.
“Hlomuka has called on the community structures to reject these kinds of criminality and the incidents of mass killings which are causing panic to members of the community."
