Bundu
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"MBOMBELA – A 59-year-old man has been accused of attempted murder after he shot a 15-year-old boy in the Hermansburg area on Saturday.
The teenager, who cannot be named without his parents’ consent, was riding his off-road motorbike on a farm at the time. Hendrik Andries Marais, a farm manager in the area, allegedly shot at him with a shotgun. The boy was hit in the torso and legs.
Marais appeared in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court on Monday on a charge of attempted murder.
According to police spokesman Capt Dawie Pretorius, the teenager and his friends were riding their bikes on a farm at around 13:00.
“For reasons unknown to us as yet, the accused shot him with a shotgun while he was riding his bike.”
An eyewitness on the scene said the teenagers had been apparently riding in a bushy area far from houses and there were no crops in the vicinity they could have damaged. “They had been riding there for years, and nobody had complained about the noise.”
He added that is was nowhere near Marais’ house."
"MBOMBELA – A 59-year-old man has been accused of attempted murder after he shot a 15-year-old boy in the Hermansburg area on Saturday.
The teenager, who cannot be named without his parents’ consent, was riding his off-road motorbike on a farm at the time. Hendrik Andries Marais, a farm manager in the area, allegedly shot at him with a shotgun. The boy was hit in the torso and legs.
Marais appeared in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court on Monday on a charge of attempted murder.
According to police spokesman Capt Dawie Pretorius, the teenager and his friends were riding their bikes on a farm at around 13:00.
“For reasons unknown to us as yet, the accused shot him with a shotgun while he was riding his bike.”
An eyewitness on the scene said the teenagers had been apparently riding in a bushy area far from houses and there were no crops in the vicinity they could have damaged. “They had been riding there for years, and nobody had complained about the noise.”
He added that is was nowhere near Marais’ house."
