Community members from Ivory Park, Gauteng have castrated and killed a man they believed was part of a gang of three that had raped two girls on the night of 15 June 2019.
According to Police Captain Lungelo Dlamini, the girls are aged 14 and 18.
Police are also following leads to arrest two other suspects who managed to escape from the community members who tried to apprehend them at the scene of a gang rape. A murder case has been opened for a victim of mob justice but no one has been arrested.
According to Dlamini, it is alleged that two girls were walking to Lindokuhle informal settlement when they were confronted by suspects armed with a knife and a firearm.
The suspects then raped them repeatedly. A member of the public who saw the incident alerted the community who came out and confronted the alleged rapists.
Two of the suspects manage to escape and the other was caught and allegedly killed by members of the community at the scene.