WALMER - 2 MEN SHOT EXECUTION-STYLE , BODIES DISCOVERED IN FIFTH AVENUE

MYSTERY surrounds the gruesome discovery in Port Elizabeth early yesterday of two men shot dead execution-style, their bloodied bodies left by the side of the road in Walmer’s busy Fifth Avenue.

The bodies of Simphiwe Nkhanlipi and Mzwabantu Alpha Nakani lay exposed for several hours next to a tree on a resident’s front lawn before police arrived at 7.30am and cordoned off the scene.

There was confusion over the ages of the two men, however, with their mothers saying that Nakani was 17 and Nkhanlipi 18, while the police insisted they were older, putting their ages at 27 and 20.

Nakani was shot three times in the left side of the face and Nkhanlipi once in the forehead. Their bodies were lying side by side.

Bullet casings recovered at the scene will be sent for ballistic testing.

Nakani’s mother, who asked not to be named, could not contain her emotions as forensic pathologists turned over her son’s body. She threw herself on her daughter as she cried uncontrollably, raising her hands to the sky and shouting, ”Nkosi yam, Nkosi yam! (My God, my God!)”

VIA - heraldlive.co.za