South Africa: Indian-origin man strangles son to death in front of 4-year-old daughter
The police went in search of the father when he failed to bring the children back to home at the scheduled time.
In Short
- The police went in search of the father when he failed to bring the children back.
- They found him wandering around a park with both children in his arms.
- Both the children were rushed to a hospital where the boy was declared dead.
An Indian-origin man who allegedly strangled his seven-year-old son to death, while his four-year-old daughter watched in horror has been arrested in South Africa.
The 29-year-old man, who was separated from his wife and had rights to visit children, is expected to appear in the court on Tuesday.
The man could not be named under South Africa's child protection laws.
The police went in search of the father when he failed to bring the children back to home at the scheduled time, an uncle of the children told the local media.
They found him wandering around a park with both children in his arms where he claimed that the boy was asleep. Both the children were rushed to a hospital where the boy was declared dead. His sister described how her father had choked him.
The child's grandmother, Tracy Sinayhakah, told the weekly Post that she had received a chilling WhatsApp message from the father just before the alleged killing, asking her to tell his estranged wife what she was 'going to lose'.
Provincial police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Thulian Zwane said that a murder case has been opened.
The incident that took place earlier this week has shocked the community of Phoenix, the sprawling township in Durban which was created during the apartheid era to forcibly resettle the Indian community in the city.
(With inputs from PTI)
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