Three men were beaten to death and another was injured by angry community members in Flagstaff on Saturday, Eastern Cape police said.
Captain Mduduzi Godlwana said that there had been a spate of housebreakings in Flagstaff and the community believed that the four men, aged between 20 and 25, were responsible.
“The community took them to a soccer field, where they were interrogated,” he said.
The crowd beat the men with sticks, killing three of them.
Godlwana said that the fourth man was in police custody.
A case of murder had been opened, but no arrests had been made yet. - Sapa