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New charges and 8 suspects added to 30 Lentsweletau rioters
About eight people have been added to the 30 suspects charged with inciting violence and causing malicious damage to property in Lentsweletau village recently.
The 38 accused were part of an angry mob that went on the rampage during the search for 32-year-old Oteng Tebogo Mokokong who went missing on March 17th, 2021, and was later found dead and decomposed in the bush.
The accused are said to have taken the law into their hands burning down property at the village customary court and vandalising a newly built funeral parlour as well as government vehicles following the mysterious disappearance of Mokokong after he arrived in the village from a traditional doctor where he worked.