Cape Town – Police in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, reportedly arrested a 29-year-old man after he stabbed a man, 30, to death and got his ear cut off amid an argument over meat and bread at a tavern on Monday.
According to IOL, a group of men had an argument over bread and meat at a tavern in NU11, Motherwell.
“It is alleged that a fight broke out between the parties in which one of the males was stabbed multiple times and the other male’s ear was cut off,” Gqeberha police spokesperson Captain Gerda Swart said as quoted by the report.
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On Tuesday, police arrested a 29-year-old man at the Motherwell Health Centre, where he was receiving treatment for his injury,” Times Live reported.
The man was due to appear in Motherwell magistrate’s court on Thursday on a murder charge.
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