Mystery surrounds murder of KZN highway
Paramedics who responded to reports of a collision on the N3 at Townhill found a dead woman slumped in the driver’s seat of a car. She had been shot in the head.
|||Durban - Mystery surrounds the murder on Thursday night of a woman in her twenties, shot dead on the N3 at Townhill in Pietermaritzburg.
ER24 paramedics who attended the scene said they had initially responded to a call-out for a vehicle collision.
On arrival, they found the car up against the roadside barrier. Bullet holes were found on the vehicle.
The woman was slumped in the driver’s seat with a bullet wound to the head. She was declared dead at the scene.
Police have not, as yet, released the identity of the victim.
The N3 at Townhill was closed for several hours as police tried to piece together the events that led to her death.
Investigations continue.
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