Pinetown
At least 12 people injured in explosions at Pinetown chemical factory
It is understood that at least two explosions occurred at a chemical factory on Otto Volek Road on Tuesday morning.
The cause of the explosions, which occurred on Tuesday morning, was not yet known.
The truck ploughed into the vehicles before it veered off the road in Pinetown on Monday night.
Police Minister Bheki Cele is expected to visit the affected families on Monday before giving an update on investigations.
The three women and the two men were gunned down on Saturday in an attack in KwaNdengezi.
Officers described Saturday night's attack in Kwandengezi as an execution-style massacre.
The motive of the killing is not known at this stage.
Police said on Tuesday the constable was found slumped over in the driver’s seat of a state-owned Quantum minibus with a gunshot wound to his head.
The department’s Kwazi Mthethwa said sections of Zwelinjani Secondary were set alight after reports were issued to pupils who felt they were marked unfairly.
The 44-year father from Pinetown, situated in the north of Durban, has confessed to killing his three children and stepdaughter following an argument with his wife.
A man suspected of killing his four young children, one of whom is his stepdaughter, in Pinetown North was arrested on Wednesday. KZN MEC for Social Development Nonhlanhla Khoza informed the mother of the news and said the state would help with funeral arrangements.
The mother suspected something was wrong after he fetched them from school on Tuesday.
Nazareth community members gathered outside the Pinetown Magistrates Court where the 39-year-old suspect appeared, calling for life imprisonment.
One man died after he was ejected from the taxi while another person died when a passing vehicle hit him.
A friend of the alleged kidnapped boy's father and a bystander who tried to intervene were both killed by the mob.
At least 80 unidentified bodies are beginning to decompose at the Pinetown and Fort Napier mortuaries as they have been unattended to for six months.
It's believed the taxi driver lost control of the vehicle this afternoon.
Paramedics had to use the Jaws of Life to extricate one of the truck drivers from the wreckage.
Police say an undisclosed amount of cash was taken from the machines this morning.