Five year old spat results in death

A variety of reasons have emerged as motives for the spate of killings that occurred over the long Christmas weekend, including alcohol abuse, lack of gun handling skills and revenge killings, according to police reports. 

In Quthing, a five year old spat between a man and another 10 years his senior whom the former blamed for the death of his mother in 1998 resulted in the older man being killed just outside a shebeen at Ha Koali in the district on December 27. 

Two other men have also been arrested for killing a 25-year-old man at Holy Cross in the same district, after a quarrel at a shebeen. 

In Berea, the Teyateyaneng police are investigating the deaths of two men who also died over the Christmas weekend. 

Inspector Chabane Lebusa of the TY Criminal Investigation Division said in the one case, a man has been arrested in connection with the death of his brother from knife wounds. The brothers has reportedly been drinking at home on Christmas evening when they started quarrelling, resulting in one stabbing the other to death. 

He reported four other attempted murder cases involving guns, including one in which a woman has been charged with attempted murder after she shot another in the arm as they were practicing how to use the gun and the 9 millimetre pistol went off accidentally, wounding the other in the right hand.

29 December 2003