Overview
- Police say seven relatives were taken from their Newark home on April 21 and driven about 200 km to Melmoth, where they were killed.
- A domestic worker raised the alarm the next morning after finding the house ransacked and a car and seven people missing.
- Investigators report a 20-year-old woman was raped at the home and again in Melmoth, and suspects forced victims to hand over banking PINs.
- After the transfers, three victims were shot and four were stabbed, and officers later recovered multiple cellphones and a firearm during arrests.
- Three men aged 21, 26 and 28 are in custody, one is said to have worked for the family, and they are due in the KwaDukuza court on Friday as police test links to other cases.