{"id":4257,"date":"2013-05-26T18:26:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/south-african-teenager-hacks-family-to-death\/"},"modified":"2013-05-26T18:26:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T18:26:14","slug":"south-african-teenager-hacks-family-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/south-african-teenager-hacks-family-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"South African teenager hacks family to death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South African police arrested a boy for hacking to death four family members with an axe after two siblings escaped and called for help, a spokesman said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The 14 year-old was arrested shortly after the grizzly murder of his mother, grandmother, brother and baby sister on Friday morning, said police spokesman Lungelo Dlamini.<\/p>\n

“It’s alleged that he used an axe and then attacked them while they were sleeping,” Dlamini told AFP.<\/p>\n

The boy’s eight-year-old and nine-year-old sisters ran away during the killings at 1 am (2300 GMT Thursday) in the Etwatwa informal settlement east of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

“The sisters informed the neighbours what was happening at the house and in the mean time the boy ran away,” Dlamini told AFP.<\/p>\n

Police tracked down the teen by midday.<\/p>\n

The mother, 42, was found dead in the corrugated iron-shack the family lives in, while the three-month-old sister was found dead in a nearby field.<\/p>\n

The granny, 58, and brother, 7, died in hospital.<\/p>\n

Police are still searching for the murder weapon.<\/p>\n

The boy will appear in the Benoni Magistrates court on Monday.<\/p>\n

South Africa has one of the highest murder rates outside war zones.<\/p>\n

Just under 16,000 people were killed between 2011 and 2012, according to official statistics.<\/p>\n

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