Electricians in Germiston brutally murdered attempting to fix power cable
Investigations are underway after 4 electricians were killed in Germiston on Monday. Residents apparently mistook the electricians for criminals who were attempting to steal the power cables.
One of the city’s electricians requested assistance from contractors after noticing a group of community members on a bridge nearby.
When the electricians approached the scene, the community members picked up the vehicle of the contractors as they were working on-site, threw it over the bridge and set it alight. The community then attacked the contractors and assaulted them with various objects, killing four of them in the process.
“The barbaric murder of these innocent people is strongly condemned by the municipality. What makes the situation worse is that these victims of brutal murder were trying to assist with the stabilization of electricity in the very same area where they were senselessly attacked,” the city said in a statement.
