Man stabbed 13 times allegedly by girlfriend

A Bloemfontein woman is in hospital under police guard after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend to death in a “vicious domestic scuffle”.

|||

Bloemfontein - A Bloemfontein man was stabbed to death, allegedly by his girlfriend, during in a domestic fight, Free State police said on Friday.

“He was stabbed in what is suspected to be a domestic scuffle which had really gone wrong. It is alleged that the deceased was stabbed to death following a vicious domestic scuffle which had erupted between him and his 36-year-old girlfriend. The deceased was found lying in the pool of blood in the kitchen of his house and had sustained 13 stabbed wounds in the upper body,” said police spokesperson Captain Chaka Marope.

The woman had three stab wounds in the upper body and was under police guard at a local hospital.

“A case of murder has been opened. The suspect is expected to appear in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court as soon as she is recovered from her injuries,” Marope said.

African News Agency