A Woodstock student was brutally attacked and murdered on Thursday morning after a burglar broke into his home, which is situated less than 500m from the Woodstock police station.
Dane van Zyl, 21, a student in business management at Unisa, was attacked and stabbed several times in the neck, chest and legs between 07:00 and 10:00 in his home in Plein Street, which he shared with his brother and his brother's friend.
It was the second murder in Woodstock in three days. A man, 25, whose name had not yet been released, was stabbed to death in Albert Road on Tuesday night.
Since 2006, at least two academics and two students from the University of Cape Town have been murdered in the same area. Warrant Officer Lourens le Roux was also shot and killed in front of the Woodstock police station.
According to Dane's brother, Uriah, 26, he and his friend had left for work at about 07:15 and later came home to meet a business acquaintance when he found his brother in a pool of blood on the floor with several knife wounds to his body.
Uriah carried his brother to his bakkie and raced to the Chris Barnard Memorial Hospital, where he died shortly after his arrival.
Dane was at home alone when the murderer broke the kitchen window to gain access to the house. He came via an alley next to the house and climbed over the neighbours' wall.
The man got away with a laptop and a cellphone.
After fleeing from the house, neighbours saw the attacker in their back yard. There was a physical altercation when they tried to detain him.
The attacker, who had a back pack with him, managed to pull free, dropped the back pack and ran away. In the bag were DVDs, a PlayStation and computer cables.
No weapon was found on the scene.
- Die Burger
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