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News24 reports that a female police officer became the second Western Cape off-duty cop to be killed over the past weekend, and suspicions are that she was also raped.
Police have since arrested a suspect in connection with the discovery of the body of the 29-year-old officer in Mfuleni. The officer was attached to the Samora Machel Police Station and had been out with a friend, visiting acquaintances in the area, when she was killed. Western Cape police spokesperson Brigadier Novela Potelwa reported: "Mfuleni police were alerted to an unknown body that was discovered at Malgas camp, Extension 4 in Mfuleni, in the early hours of Sunday morning. Upon arrival, they initiated an investigation. In that process, it was ascertained that the deceased person was an SA Police Service member." Further details about the circumstances that led to the officer’s death, including the possibility that she was raped, are the subject of an investigation by the Western Cape Hawks. Her murder came hours after Warrant Officer Lindela Mraqisa was among five people killed in a mass shooting in Gugulethu, Cape Town, on Saturday evening. Mraqisa, who had also been also off duty, was shot dead at around 23:00, along with three other men and one woman
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard compiled by Nicole McCain at News24
- Read too, Weekend of bloodshed sees protection officer killed in mass shooting and policewoman found murdered, at Daily Maverick
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