Another police murder suicide in the Western Cape

Western Cape police have expressed shock at an incident in which a former police officer committed suicide after killing his two young daughters. Police spokesperson Elna de Beer said the tragedy happened on Friday but the details were only released Tuesday. Forty-four-year-old Francois Coetzee’s wife works in the police’s provincial office. She found the bodies after phoning home and not getting a response. De Beer says a post mortem will determine how six-year-old Ancois and eight-year-old Arnina died. An inquest docket has been opened to try and establish what the motive for the family killing was.