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Five Arrested in South Africa After Farmer Shot and Tortured
BBC · 2 hours ago · Read the Full Story on BBC
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South African police have arrested five suspects following a brutal house robbery and torture attack on 50-year-old cattle farmer Donovan Marx in the North West province.
- South African police arrested five people aged between 26 and 56 over the weekend in connection with an attack on cattle farmer Donovan Marx.
- The 50-year-old farmer was ambushed, shot, stabbed, and had his ears cut off during a house robbery at his farm in Ventersdorp, North West province, last Wednesday.
- Masked gunmen initially tied up a farm worker with cable ties before ambushing Marx upon his return home.
- The attackers stole three firearms from a safe and escaped in Marx's van before the farm worker freed himself to call for help.
- Marx remains hospitalized and may need prosthetic ears after surgeons were unable to save his own.
- The five suspects face charges of house robbery, attempted murder, and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, and are set to appear in court on Tuesday.
- Agriculture Minister Willie Aucamp and parliamentary police committee chair Ian Cameron both condemned the attack and praised the police for swift arrests.
- Claims by right-wing groups that farm attacks constitute a white genocide have been widely discredited and dismissed by all political parties in South Africa.
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