Police probing arson, murder cases following fire at house in Eersterivier
The police's Frederick van Wyk is appealing to anyone with information, to come forward.
FILE: Police tape at a crime scene. Picture: Thomas Holder/Eyewitness News
CAPE TOWN - Police are investigating cases of arson and murder, following a fire at a house in Eersterivier.
Officers were called to the scene in Forest Village in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The police's Frederick van Wyk is appealing to anyone with information to come forward.
"Kleinvlei police registered a double murder and arson case for investigation. According to reports, SAPS members on duty attended to a complaint of a house on fire at the mentioned address. On their arrival, they found the fire brigade already busy extinguishing the fire. When the fire was extinguished, the bodies of a seven-year-old boy and an unidentified person were found inside the house."