Olorato Mongale murder suspect killed during shootout with police in KZN

Olorato Mongale was murdered on Sunday after meeting a man for a date.

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The main suspect wanted for the murder of Olorato Mongale has been killed in a shootout with police in the early hours of Friday morning.

According to police,a takedown operation was put into action after they received information that one of the suspects was hiding in a residential complex in Amanzimtoti,KwaZulu-Natal.

Police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said when police announced their arrival,the man shot at the officers,who then returned fire and he was fatally wounded.

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Police have not yet disclosed the name of the suspect,but it is understood to be the man Mongale initially met for a date on the day she was murdered.

The building in Amanzimtoti where one of the main suspects in the Olorato Mongale case was shot by police.

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Police previously identified Bongani Mthimkhulu,Philangenkosi Makhanya and Fezile Ngubane as suspects sought in connection with the murder of 30-year-old Mongale,whose body was discovered next to Cambridge Road outside of a car workshop in Lombardy West in Johannesburg on Sunday.

While police continue the search for the two remaining suspects,they have taken in the parents of one of the wanted men for questioning.

The mother was taken in after she allegedly tipped off her son about the police’s interest in his whereabouts,which enabled him to evade arrest on Wednesday.

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It is also believed that the suspect’s father is the owner of the vehicle thought to have been used during Mongale’s murder.