Police van torched after crash that killed girl, 11, and injured her pals

DELFT South erupted after a meisie 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.

- BY KIM SWARTZ

'GONE FOR GOOD': Namhla Nondala

The community turned on the cops, who fled for their lives, before angry residents torched the police van in Wingnut Street.

Namhla Nondala, 11, was taken to Tygerberg mortuary following Saturday’s incident, which is now being investigated by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid).

Ipid spokesperson Phaladi Shuping reported that it is alleged that when the incident occurred around 6.30pm that three cops from Delft SAPS were driving a marked police vehicle on route to attend to a complaint.

Shuping explained: “When the members were driving down Sandlehout street, a taxi allegedly came in the opposite direction, towards the police vehicle.

“The driver of the police vehicle allegedly swerved out of the way of the taxi and drove into a wendy house in the same street, and into three children who were playing next to the wendy house.”