Mokwakwaila mob attack suspects arrested

By Refilwe Mathebula

Limpopo police commissioner Lieutenant General Nneke Ledwaba has commended police members for the swift arrest of eleven suspects who allegedly murdered three people in a mob attack.

The suspects aged between 15 and 42 were arrested in the early hours on Tuesday at Mawa village in the Mokwakwaila policing area outside Tzaneen.

The suspects, seven men and four women were arrested from their different homes.

35-year-old Lismond Morasehla, 17-year-old Kamogelo Sekgobela and Tshepiso Maukwe aged 27, were brutally killed over the weekend, after they were accused of being responsible for crime in the area.

Limpopo police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo says the police have confiscated a bakkie that was allegedly used to transport some of community members to the scene where the killing took place.