Pastor held after dismembered boy found

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Durban – A pastor has been arrested for the murder of a three-year-old boy after his body parts were found at a church in Pongola, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday.

Police received information about a body at a church in Ncontshane and when they went there on Saturday they found a plastic bag containing body parts, said Captain Thulani Zwane.

“It is suspected that the parts were of a boy who was reported missing on 2 July [the previous Wednesday] in the area,” he said.

Some body parts of the child were still missing and police were searching for them.

A case of murder was opened. Zwane did not say when the pastor was arrested, or disclose the name of the church.

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