Police arrest suspect after Umlazi attack that killed mother and three children

Police made a breakthrough on Monday with the arrest of a 25-year-old man in connection with the Umlazi horror attack on Saturday‚ which left a woman and her three children dead and eight injured.

Sibongile Mzila and children Hlengiwe‚ Lungisani and Mlungisi were killed in the south Durban attack.

Mzila's daughter Nompilo‚ 27‚ survived the shooting. She said both men had raped her.

• Four slain as gang brutalises family and now on the runThe survivor of a horrific attack has told how she heard her sister being shot in the head and watched her mother suffer the same fate before being raped at gunpoint at her home in Umlazi outside Durban yesterday. 

Three cellphones and DVDs were taken.

According to police the duo had earlier robbed and shot eight patrons at a tavern in the township. They were all taken to hospital for treatment.

The family’s screams and the sounds of multiple gunshots alerted neighbours who summoned the police.

• Police vow to arrest the men involved in a brutal family massacre in UmlaziKwaZulu-Natal community safety MEC Mxolisi Kaunda has vowed to capture the gang of men responsible for a brutal shooting‚ murder and rape spree in Umlazi‚ Durban‚ in the early hours of Saturday morning‚ in which four people died. 

A Flying Squad officer shot and killed one of the gunmen‚ who had been arrested two months ago for possession of an unlicenced firearm. He had been out on bail.

Police tracked his alleged accomplice to a house in Umlazi N section on Monday morning.

Nompilo told the Sunday Times that she wished the second suspect dead‚ because he had robbed her of her family. Police spokesman Colonel Thembeka Mbhele said: “A revolver believed to [have been used in the crime] was recovered. He will appear in court soon."