Muslim couple murdered in South Africa
Johannesburg, OCT 7: Mourners wept as they paid their final respects to Dr Mohamed Anwar Kadwa and his wife Muneira, who were murdered in their home. The prominent plastic surgeon and his wife were shot dead in their bed while their children listened in terror as six shots hit their father and one fatal bullet struck their mother. The incident took place in their double-storey home in upmarket Crown North, a small suburb next to Mayfair, western Johannesburg, South Africa. The murders happened little more than two hours after Kadwa had observed tarawih - evening prayers on the first night of the holy month of Ramadan. "I think I am going to miss him the most. He was more than a doctor to me; he was like a brother. He helped me through my cancer and reconstructed my breast so that I felt like a real woman again," said Miriam Gani of Lenasia. "Everybody loved him. It's impossible to think who would want to do something like this to such a kind, gentle man," another woman said. Hundreds of relatives, friends and residents of the local community gathered at the Kadwa home yesterday afternoon for the couple's funeral. The survivors of the ordeal were closely guarded by their family, and were too traumatized to speak to the press. According to Saleem Thokan, a chairperson of the Johannesburg Central Community Police Forum, and who was one of the first on the crime scene, gunshots were heard coming from the Kadwa house sometime after 11.30pm on Wednesday. "There were screams for help coming from the top window," said Thokan, who is a resident in the same street. Kadwa's son Riaz, a student at Wits University, and his daughter Nabila, a matric pupil at Roedean, were in the house at the time. Riaz's wife, also named Nabila, was with them when the intruders came in. It is understood that they had tripped the electricity mains so that the house remained in darkness while the murders were committed. The two young women hid in cupboards while Riaz called for help out of the window. His sister Nabila cowered in a linen cupboard and used her cell phone to call several friends for help. She was speaking to one of her friends as the last shots were fired. He declined to speak to The Star about what Nabila has said to him, describing the call as a personal matter and one he did not want to speak about publicly, out of respect. "We were here within minutes," said Thokan, who was among several people in the street who immediately rushed to the Kadwa house. "The front door was standing open and the house was in darkness. The police were here within minutes and called for more back-up. I called (area commissioner) Oswald Reddy, who came out immediately and brought in a crack squad to work on the case," he added. It is understood that the investigation is to be headed by Senior Superintendent Guy Kilian, one of the main role-players credited with the success of the high-profile Leigh Matthews kidnapping case. Forensics experts worked on the scene through the night, and at 7.30am on Thursday Kadwa, 50, and Muneira, 49, were taken away in body bags. One local resident described the plastic surgeon as a kind and loving man. Another friend said Kadwa loved gardening and pointed to the meticulously pruned bushes and hedges in the front garden as evidence of the love he had for his home. Sergeant Sanku Tsunke, a police spokesperson for Johannesburg, said police were working round the clock on the case, but no arrests had been made and the motive for the killing was unknown.
Indian kills himself, wife 4 children in UAE
DUBAI, Sept 25: An Indian man slit the throats of his wife and four children, the youngest an 8-month-old baby, before killing himself in the Gulf emirate of Sharjah, a UAE newspaper said on Sunday. Gulf News said the 38-year-old engineer used to work for a consultancy company in the Gulf’s trade hub Dubai but had recently called his family in Hyderabad to say he did not want to live in the United Arab Emirates any more. Police are investigating the crime, one of the most gruesome in this conservative Gulf Arab state, the newspaper said. Millions of expatriates, mainly from the Indian subcontinent, live and work in the energy-rich UAE, a federation of seven emirates that include Dubai and Sharjah. Many middle-income workers, who came to the UAE seeking an affordable high standard of living, are now feeling the pinch of spiraling costs in the Gulf state, where rents have risen by about 50 per cent in a year and salaries have lagged behind, causing severe hardships to expatriates living there.—AFP
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