By Staff Reporter
SENAKWE VILLAGE-The Police at Mokwakwaila in Bolobedu have launched unusual investigations of violation of grave and theft of the corpse after the body of the deceased was dug out of the grave and stolen by unknown suspect(s) at Senakwe Section in Bolobedu.
One of the family members had on Sunday, February 05, reportedly gone to the cemetery to clean the gravesite in preparation for the upcoming gathering of the unveiling of the tombstone, when she discovered that the grave was dug open and the corpse stolen. She then alerted family members and the Police were also notified.
The Police, when arriving at the scene, they were met with the unusual sight of the violated grave having a hole and an open coffin with no corpse inside.
The preliminary probe conducted at the scene established that the suspect(s) accessed the graveyard by cutting the side fence. They then dug a hole next to the grave, accessed the coffin and stole the corpse.
Modike Philemon Masedi whose body was stolen reportedly died on January 15 and was buried seven days later on the 22nd. The motive for this incident is unknown at this stage.
The Provincial Commissioner of Police in Limpopo Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe has expressed shock at what happened at the said graveyard and has ordered that the perpetrator(s) be hunted down and brought to book.
“We call on community members in the area to respect the unfolding investigations conducted by the police and desist from pointing fingers as these often play into instigators of vigilantism in which people take the law into their own hands,” concluded Lieutenant General Hadebe.
Cases of violation of grave and theft were opened.
