DELFT MENSE TURN ON COPS

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

- BY KIM SWARTZ

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.

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.