Cape Times reports that Checkers staff and customers who witnessed the murder of an employee at a supermarket in Vincent Balfour Park, East London, have been offered trauma counselling following the incident on Sunday.

The employee was stabbed to death inside the shop. Security officers managed to arrest the fleeing suspect. A police spokesperson said that at around 8.30am the police attended to a complaint of a stabbing and on arrival found a 36-year-old woman lying on her back in a pool of blood. “The suspect, aged 31 years old, entered the shop as a customer and attacked the victim who was busy working in the aisles. Suddenly a scream from the aisles was heard by the staff members and the security officers on duty. The victim came running towards the tills being chased by the suspect who repeatedly stabbed her. Security officers tried to intervene however the suspect ran out of the shop with the knife in his hand. They apprehended him and handed him over to police. The murder weapon was also recovered.” A security officer also sustained a stab wound and is in a stable condition after having been taken to hospital. The suspect was also taken to hospital for treatment and is under police guard. A murder case has been opened and is under investigation.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Zintle Mdaka at Cape Times
• See too, Supermarket employee stabbed to death in front of customers at Eastern Cape mall, at News24

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