Indian-origin family of 5 killed in arson in South Africa
15 April 2018 3:31 AM IST
Johannesburg: Five members of an Indian-origin family, including three children, have been killed in South Africa when their home was allegedly petrol-bombed by an unidentified arsonist, police said.
Aziz Manjra, 45, who settled in South Africa 25 years ago, was found dead along with his South African wife Gori Bibi and their three children - Zubina, 18, Mairoonisa, 14 and Muhammad Rizwan, 10 - at their home in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday morning.
The family had moved into the house only a fortnight earlier. Their friends said that they had saved every possible cent from Manjra's earnings as a shop assistant to realise their dream of owning their own home. A neighbour in the semi-detached house next door, who preferred to remain anonymous, told The Mercury newspaper that her sleep was broken around two in the morning when she heard what sounded like footsteps on her roof. "I heard a man shouting 'Allah'. This was followed by screaming. I was terrified and too scared to even go and check what was happening," she said.
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