National
Crime stats: Murder, attempted murder up─── 11:01 Fri, 19 Sep 2014
Pretoria - Murder has increased by five percent in the past year, national police commissioner Riah Phiyega said on Friday.
"We are very concerned about that," she told reporters, announcing crime statistics for the 2013/2014 financial year.
"We are saying murder requires also that society works very closely with us to assist us to achieve a reduction."
Attempted murder went up by 4.6 percent and aggravated robbery was up by 12.7 percent.
Sapa
