COPS have issued a strong warning to the residents who beat up two suspected thieves and threw them down a hole.
On Saturday, angry residents caught two men they claimed were behind break-ins and thefts in their kasi.
Instead of handing them to cops, they assaulted them and threw them down a hole in the ground!
They were rescued by police and taken to hospital.
It happened in Ditenteng Village in Moletjie, Limpopo,
But provincial police commissioner General Nneke Ledwaba had harsh words for people who moer suspects instead of calling the cops to arrest them.
“We can’t allow people to assault others and throw them into water pits,” Ledwaba told the People’s Paper.
“Police will be relentless in their pursuit of those responsible.”
But some community members, said they don’t blame people who moer suspects.
They said their area had experienced a high number of housebreakings recently.
They also said they had reported criminals to cops.
But the same lawbreakers, they said, were often seen back on the streets after some time.
A villager told Daily Sun: “These men are terrorising us by entering our houses at night and doing as they please while we sleep.
“We are sick and tired of these thieves. We have been reporting them to the police but the thugs have never been arrested.
“I don’t blame the community for beating up the suspects. We can no longer tolerate housebreaking.”
- Meanwhile, two missing men were found in Mokhurumela Village outside Bochum in Driekoppies.
Both men had been brutally assaulted, and one of them later died from his injuries in hospital.
Limpopo police spokesman Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said cops were investigating cases of murder and kidnapping.
