Five alleged gangsters in the Eastern Cape have been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder and rape of a 14-year-old Port Elizabeth teenage girl.
It was alleged that at about 8.30 am on Thursday, January 7, police received information of a body of a teenage girl with multiple stab wounds lying in bushes between Gelvandale and Algoa Park in Port Elizabeth,
The hunt for the suspects began at 6am on Saturday morning, and at about 7.15 am, the first two suspects were arrested at a house in Old Stanford Road in Port Elizabeth.
A few minutes later, three other suspects were rounded up at houses in Bongo and Pienaar streets. All the suspects had gang affiliations and were aged between 18 and 33. Further arrests are expected.