The MEC is the third person to be arrested in connection with the August 22 fatal shooting of two people and injury to another person
Pretoria – A member of the executive council in Mpumalanga has been arrested and charged for crimes including murder and attempted murder, the South African Police Service said on Monday.
“This morning a member of the executive council in Mpumalanga, accompanied by his attorney, handed himself over to police in Nelspruit in connection with at least two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder,” said SAPS national spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo. “The 45 year-old MEC is alleged to have been involved in a shooting where two people were fatally shot and a third person wounded on Sunday, 22 August 2021 in Nelspruit.”
Naidoo said the arrest of the provincial MEC brings to three the total number of people arrested in connection with this case.
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