South African Schoolchildren Arrested After Murder

The teenagers, aged 15 and 16 years, were arrested for the murder of 28-year-old Thoriso Themane. According to a police official, the schoolchildren who attends the same school in Polokwane, North West Province, allegedly beat the victim to death and left his body at the side of the road.

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