Villagers burn man after wife found hanging from tree

123RF/ prathaanin Limpopo was set alight and later admitted to a local hospital after an angry mob accused him of been responsible for the death of his wife.

Provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Nneke Ledwaba has condemned in the strongest possible terms the brutal attackPolice spokesperson Col Moatshe Ngoepe said villagers60-year-old Phosa Egnes Maswanganyi, who went missing on Tuesday October 27, "The residents then accused the deceased's husband and his friend of being involved in her disappearance anddeath. Subsequent to that, they torched the husband's two rondavel houses and thereafter set him alight," he said.

"We cannot allow this kind of behavior to rule our province where people still ignore our call to work with us and refrain from taking the law into their own hands. The suspects must be hunted down and brought to book," said Ledwaba.The police have launched a massive manhunt for the suspects involved in this matter.

Call it barbaric or whatever but abuse of women and children is scary, this effective consequence management, You kill you die!!!

I respect ✊🏿 for the Villagers we can’t carry on like this 🙊🙊🙊🥺

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