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Man held in sugarcane case
04/10/2007 16:40 - (SA)
Durban - A Durban man is being questioned by police in connection with the Umzinto serial killings, police said on Thursday.
Police spokesperson Superintendent Zandra Hechter said the man was taken in for questioning on Wednesday evening.
Hechter said the man was picked up in Durban's Inanda area.
She said the man was "being questioned" and had not been arrested.
The bodies of eight women have been found in the sugarcane fields surrounding Umzinto's Shayamoya township since the beginning of September.
Police initially arrested five people - three women and two men - in connection with the murders.
Two were later released and two men and a woman appeared in the Umzinto Magistrate's Court on charges of abduction and murder last week.
Investigations have taken police as far north as Kwadakuza (formerly Stanger) and as far south as Port St Johns, where the alleged kingpin of the group hails from.
Hechter said it was "difficult to say" whether the main suspect - a 36-year old man - operated on his own, or whether there was a group that operated together.
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