Dad burns daughter alive
2003-02-18 22:55
Johannesburg - A six-year-old girl was killed in a fire after her father set their shack alight and then committed suicide in Klipspruit, Soweto on Tuesday morning, police said.
Captain Mbazima Shiburi said the man accused the girl's mother of having an affair with another man at her work.
The father's brother, who heard them arguing in their shack, found him attempting to strangle the woman.
He took the girl into the main house on the same plot.
The mother ran away.
Shiburi said the father sneaked into the main house and took the girl back to the shack. He locked her up and set the shack alight.
The father then went to a nearby tree and hanged himself.
- SAPA