02/09/2017

Woman dies after being doused with flammable liquid and set ablaze by her lover

 


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A man who allegedly doused his girlfriend with petrol and set alight her at the weekend has been arrested by Gauteng police, South Africa.

Lyzah Seroka died from her injuries at the Kalafong Hospital on Monday after being doused with petrol and set alight by her lover in their shack in Matlejoane, Atteridgeville‚ Pretoria on Sunday night. Many of her internal organs had been damaged by the flames.

The 38-year-old left behind two children‚ whom she had with her boyfriend. The children live with their grandparents in Sekhukhune‚ Limpopo.
The 41-year-old suspect was nabbed in Limpopo in the early hours of Friday morning‚ said Lieutenant-Colonel Kay Makhubela.
“He was on the run after he allegedly set alight his girlfriend‚ aged 38-years-old‚ in an Atteridgeville informal settlement on Sunday. She later died in hospital‚” said Makhubela.

The arrest came following a tip-off from community members. The deceased's brother,  27-year-old Karabo Seroka, who lived in a shack next to his sister and her boyfriend‚ detailed how he heard her screaming just after midnight on Sunday. He ran to her shack where he found her in a ball of flame.
This was not the first time he had had to rush over to her house to spare her from the blows of her lover‚ whom she has been with since her childhood days‚ said Karabo.
He ran to their shack‚ only to bump into Lyzah’s partner‚ who was running away.

“I passed him by the gate and ran in to get my heavily pregnant cousin out of the burning shack. I then went back in for my sister. I got her out and tried to rip the burning clothes off her body‚” said a visibly traumatised Karabo.
“As I carried her out‚ she kept saying: ‘Look how he has rewarded me for staying 17 years with him. Look what he’s done to me. He has taken my beauty away‚’” Karabo said‚ staring into the distance as though reliving that very moment.
Just a few hours earlier‚ he had asked the man he regarded as his brother-in-law why he had poured oil all over their yard.

“He told me he was doing it to kill the snakes around the yard‚” said Karabo. “I didn’t think that he was referring to my sister.”
After rescuing her from the burning shack‚ he carried her in his arms to the main road of the informal settlement. The roads are narrow and rocky‚ making it impossible for an ambulance to gain entry.

“At that point‚ I could feel her flesh on my arms ... But she was still talking and I kept telling her that things would be okay‚” said Karabo.
Karabo said that the accused had called his mother‚ begging for forgiveness for his actions.
“My mom just hung up the phone on him‚” said Karabo Seroka.
Karabo‚ who is unemployed‚ had said that the little savings he had would now go towards burying his sister and taking care of her children.

“I was saving that money to try and pay a little lobola for my girlfriend at the end of the year but this has changed things. After this all happened‚ I told her that from now on‚ I have two children. I have to take care of them‚” he said.
Photo credit: Karabo Seroka

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