Police have launched an investigation into the fatal shooting of a young mother who was dumped in a field with her eight-month-old daughter, who was unharmed, in Laezonia, Gauteng.
Police spokesperson Lt-Col Mavela Masondo said Erasmia police station acting commander Capt Simon Maredi has assembled a team of detectives to look into the circumstances of the murder.
On Friday evening “residents reported hearing gunshots followed by a baby’s cries, and it triggered them to investigate”.
“They made the gruesome discovery of the body of a woman with a baby lying next to her in bushes,” he said.
Police and emergency services were called to the scene.
“The victim, in her late 20s, had sustained a gunshot wound and was declared dead. The infant was taken to a place of safety,” Masondo said.
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