Police investigations revealed that the brutal attack follows a chain of events that commenced at around midnight , Sunday 26 May.
This follows after an intruder allegedly got into a house of an elderly woman.
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“The woman reportedly screamed for help and Community members of Ga-Wally village consequently mobilized, hunted down the intruder until they caught three unknown middle aged men. After accusing them of being responsible for house robberies in the area, the three were then brutally assaulted with an assortment of objects,” Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said.
According to Mojapelo, the police were met by a gruesome scene of a blood spattered area with the three badly assaulted suspects lying deceased.
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