GAUTENG. – Gracious Nkomo (28) has been positively identified by her family after her body was found on 10 September along the R21 in Kempton Park. She is the fourth of nine victims who have been positively identified.
Brig. Athlenda Mathe, police spokesperson, says Nkomo was the third woman whose body was found on 10 September in the Kempton Park area. She was found partially clothed. Her family identified her on 17 September at the Germiston mortuary. The police are investigating Nkomo's murder, as well as the other cases in which the bodies of women have been found in the area.
Lt.genl. Puleng Dimpane, the acting national police commissioner, says the investigations are progressing and a multidisciplinary team of detectives is working on them to establish the circumstances of the murders so as to identify those responsible. Kempton Park remains under heightened police presence while the investigations continue.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
