9 held for burning foreigners
2008-03-27 10:05
Johannesburg - Nine more people were arrested for the murder of two foreign nationals in Brazaville informal settlement in Atteridgeville, Pretoria police said on Thursday.
Constable Patricia Simelane said they were arrested between Wednesday and Thursday, bringing the number of accused to 12.
The three people initially arrested would appear in the Atteridgeville Magistrate's Court on Thursday.
The two foreign nationals died when a group burnt their shacks down on Monday night.
In the first incident a group went to a shack belonging to a Zimbabwean man, beat him up, left him inside and torched his shack.
He was later found dead but his brother managed to escape.
A few metres away another person was found burnt beyond recognition in a shack. That shack had occupied a stand where a tuck shop belonging to a Zimbabwean was located.
The other nine people would appear in court on murder charges soon, police said.
- SAPA