NORTH WEST. – Police are searching for suspects following a violent farm assault on Wednesday morning on Donovan Marx, a 50-year-old farmer on a farm in Syferfontein, Ventersdorp. Three armed men attacked the farm worker, bound him with cable ties and then assaulted, stabbed and shot him. The farmer was admitted to a local hospital in serious condition.
According to Capt. Majang Skalkie, police spokesperson, the incident began at approximately 08:30 when the farm worker was cutting grass. The suspects, whose faces were covered with balaclavas, appeared behind the house, pointed firearms at him and asked for the farmer's whereabouts. They bound him and took him to the back of the house.
When the farmer arrived in his red single-cabin Isuzu bakkie, two of the suspects allegedly shot him in the body. They then dragged him into the house, bound his hands and feet and further assaulted and stabbed him. The suspects stole three firearms from a safe and fled with his bakkie.
Lt.Gen. Arthur Peter Adams, provincial police commissioner, condemned the attack and appealed to the community to help police track down the suspects. Anyone with information can contact Captain Bonita Dry, commander of the Ventersdorp detective unit, on 082 373 7781.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
