Hunt for suspects in Chilean tourist murder
Updated | By Nushera Soodyal
The killers of Chilean national, Slavko Yaksic remain on the run. This as police say DNA test results confirm the body found in Ladysmith, in northern KwaZulu-Natal last month is that of the 29-year-old computer engineer.
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Yaksic was reported missing after he failed to check in for his flight back home in early October.
The tourist's family members launched a search for him, which led them to the mortuary where the body of a man carrying a Chilean passport was taken.
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"It can be confirmed now that the body that was found with stab wounds at Ladysmith is the one of a male backpacker who was reported missing by Dundee police. It was confirmed that the body was found with stab wounds," said the police's Thembeka Mbhele.
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