Police in Butterworth are investigating a case of murder and have also opened an inquest after bodies of three children and their mother were found dead at Tholeni village.
Eastern Cape police commissioner Lt-Gen Nomthetheleli Mene has established a task team to probe the spate of murders that rocked the sleepy town of Humansdorp over the past four days.
Eastern Cape police organised crime investigation unit detectives are searching for the perpetrators of a mass shooting on Tuesday night in which six people were shot dead and four wounded.