Police are combing a small KwaZulu-Natal midlands town for the killers of an elderly nun\u201a who was allegedly robbed\u201a raped and strangled over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The 86-year-old nun was found gagged and bound with a typewriter cord\u201a in her quarters at the Sacred Heart Missionary in Ixopo\u201a police said on Monday.<\/p>\n
The Austrian immigrant\u201a who has been with the mission for 60 years\u201a was found by another nun on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
She was alone in her room when the robbers struck\u201a tied her up and robbed her of cash.<\/p>\n
\u201cRape is also suspected in this matter. The victim was found tied with a typewriter cord. She was also gagged\u201a\u201d said police spokesman Major Thulani Zwane.<\/p>\n
It is understood that the nun worked closely with impoverished children in the community\u201a and was described by her fellow nuns as having a \u201ckind heart and love for children\u201d.<\/p>\n
Zwane said police were still looking for the suspects\u201a who are facing charges of rape\u201a robbery and murder.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are following all leads. We are also appealing to the community to come forward with any information that will help us solve this case.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: timeslive.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are combing a small KwaZulu-Natal midlands town for the killers of an elderly nun\u201a who was allegedly robbed\u201a raped and strangled over the weekend. The 86-year-old nun was found gagged and bound with a typewriter cord\u201a in her quarters at the Sacred Heart Missionary in Ixopo\u201a police said on Monday. The Austrian immigrant\u201a who … Continue reading “Elderly Austrian nun raped in KZN”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3678,34,11513,11514,36,2564],"class_list":["post-18540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-austria","tag-crime","tag-kwazulunatal","tag-nun","tag-rape","tag-xenophobia"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18541,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18540\/revisions\/18541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}