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By Botho Molosankwe 
11h ago
Johannesburg – A bystander stumbled upon the body of a Free State police captain who had been beheaded.
He had also been stabbed with a sharp object in the side.
The 57-year-old captain, who worked at the Selosesha police station, was found in a field near a landfill in Botshabelo on Tuesday around 9 a.m. M.
He was on sick leave at the time of his murder.
The spokesman for the Free State Police, Brigadier Motantsi Makhele, said that Botshabelo police were summoned to the scene by the passerby who had discovered the body.
“Upon arrival, the police found the body of a man lying in the veld. He had an open wound on the left side of his stomach and his throat was cut.
“The preliminary investigation revealed that the deceased could have been killed elsewhere and dumped where he was found,” he said.
The officer’s car was found not far from where his body lay and it is believed that he had just been killed when the bystander found the body.
Makhele said the motive for the murder is unknown.
“Anyone with information should contact Botshabelo Detectives on 082 466 8341 or call Crime Stop on 08600 10111, or submit information through the MySAPS app anonymously,” Makhele said.
Last week, an off-duty criminal intelligence officer chatting to an acquittal outside a spaza store in Eldorado Park Extension 1 was shot multiple times by gunmen, who then fled.
Two men, also from Eldorado Park, were arrested within 24 hours of the murder. The motive for the shooting is not yet known.
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