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Police van torched after crash that killed Delft girl, 11, and injured friends
Cape Times
|October 07, 2025
DELFT South erupted after an 11-year-old girl tragically lost her life on Saturday evening after a police van drove into a wendy house next to where she and two other girls were playing.
NAMHLA Nondala, 11
Residents turned on the cops, who fled for their lives, before their vehicle was torched in Wingnut Street.
The incident is under Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) investigation.
Ipid spokesperson Phaladi Shuping said it is alleged that the incident occurred around 6:30pm when three cops from Delft SAPS were driving a marked police vehicle on route to attend to a complaint of murder in progress.
Shuping said: “When the members were driving down Sandlehout street, a taxi allegedly came in the opposite direction, towards the police vehicle.
This story is from the October 07, 2025 edition of Cape Times.
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