2 elders found dead in Morningside home – SAPS investigate

POLICE have launched an investigation after two bodies were discovered in a Morningside home on Earl Haig Road on February 9.

SAPS spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nqobile Gwala said the matter is still under investigation.

“Mayville police are investigating two counts of murder after two bodies of elderly people were found dead inside a house in Morningside,” said Gwala.

SAPS suspect that the elders were assaulted. It is unclear if the home was broken into, although Gwala said the door was not locked.

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“It is suspected that the victims were assaulted to death and are believed to be in their eighties. It is still unknown if there was anything that was taken from the house,” said Gwala.

On August 17, last year, the body of a man in his early thirties was found on the corner of Ismail C Meer Street. The body had no visible injuries and was certified dead by paramedics. In July of the same year, a man in his forties was found dead on the pavement on Denis Hurley Street (Queen Street).