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Farmer's wife hid in the bush
12/01/2007 21:03 - (SA)
Johannesburg - A 70-year-old farmer was murdered and his wife injured in a robbery at their farmhouse near Roossenekal in Mpumalanga, police said on Friday.
Their two attackers apparently used a wooden block to lift the electric fence around the Honingdraai farm and crawled into the yard on Thursday afternoon, said Captain Klaas Maloka.
"The suspects then gained entry through the kitchen door and held the woman and her husband at gunpoint," he said.
"The men tied the couple's hands and feet with ropes. They took the farmer's three pistols and one of the men shot the farmer in the forehead."
Maloka said the men fled on Thursday night in the farmer's bakkie.
His 58-year-old wife freed herself shortly after the men left.
"She spent the night in the bushes and went to her employee's house this morning (Friday) to get help," said Maloka.
Police found her husband at 05:30 on Friday.
Maloka said no arrests had been made.
While he would not release the identity of the farmer, the SABC reported that his name was Sarel Breedt.
The farmer was the second killed this week. On Tuesday a 56-year-old man was clubbed to death with knobkerries and sticks at a meeting with squatters on the farm he managed near Melmoth in KwaZulu-Natal.
- SAPA
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