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Elderly shopkeeper disembowelled Megan Ellis, iAfrica.com, Johannesburg, 22 January 2015 A gruesome murder has taken place in Durban Deep, Roodepoort, where attackers disembowelled an elderly shopkeeper. The Malawian, who was known as M'dala (Old Man) to residents, also had his penis doused in paraffin and set alight. "He was a good man who lived alone. All he had was his small shop, where he sold paraffin, sweets and some biscuits and the small corn garden he'd planted," resident Dan Mokwena told The Star. "He was blind in one eye and partially deaf. He was an old man. There was no need to kill him like that," Mokwena said. The assailants had hacked the door off the 74-year-old man's shop early on Wednesday morning, attacking him while he slept. The murder comes as widespread looting of foreigners' stores has broken out in Soweto. The looting was sparked when a foreign national allegedly shot and killed a teenager while a group of boys attempted to rob his store in Snake Park on Monday. Residents responded to the shooting by looting foreign-owned stores and blockading streets in the area. The looting and violence then spread to Mapetla, Dobsonville, Emdeni, Zola and Protea Glen. Mokwena said residents feel unsafe following the murder of M'dala. "We don't know who would do such a thing," he said. Residents have started patrolling the area in groups in response to the murder. From: http://news.iafrica.com/sa/979633.html -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
