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The decomposing bodies of six people were discovered by police in Gauteng at a panel-beating workshop in central Johannesburg.
Brigadier Brenda Muridili, a spokesperson for the Gauteng police, told Newzroom Afrika that a man, 21, was arrested following the grim discovery on Sunday.
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“Police were called to a building in Joburg central where there was a foul smell reported. On further investigations, a body of a female was discovered and based on the preliminary investigation that was done on the scene, a 21-year-old male who lives in that particular building was arrested by the police,” she said.
“On further investigations by the police at the same building, but outside the building in a sort of a driveway where there are rubbish bins, they found five more bodies and unfortunately these bodies were at a very late stage of decomposition. Police are not able to identify those bodies but the will be subjected to forensic analysis so that they can be identified.”
There is widespread speculation on social media that the bodies are those of sex workers who were targeted and murdered in the area.
Muridili said that police are unable to confirm the allegations at this time. “We cannot ascertain that at this stage but it is one of the angles that the police will follow. When the police were doing investigations and combing the scene, there were reports from some of the bystanders that there has been two or three alleged sex workers that have been missing,” she said.
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“We know for a fact that the first body that was discovered, she was reported missing by friends. At this stage also, we cannot ascertain the details of the (deceased) person as to where she was working but police are working on that.”
Muridili mentioned that the five bodies discovered outside the building had been deceased for some time. However, the woman’s body discovered inside the building revealed that she was murdered “as recently as last week.”
That woman was last seen with the 21-year-old man who was arrested at the building about ten days ago. “He was the last person seen with the first body that was recovered. This just happened yesterday,” Muridili said.