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Mass funeral on Sunday for seven KZN family members abducted and killed | SA News

Last weekend the Monswamy family danced and toasted the beginning of a new chapter in their lives at an engagement party.

This weekend family and friends will bury Alan Monswamy, 52, his wife Sandy, 57, their children Kraidon, 26, and Shamaria, 20, as well as Sandy’s mom Mooniamma Padayachee, 78, brother Gonasagren Padayachee, 51, and aunt Mariamma Appanah, 83, after their killing in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

The seven were abducted in the early hours of Tuesday from their Newark home near KwaDukuza, bound and taken on a hell ride 200km to their death in Melmoth.

A mass funeral for the seven family members abducted in the early hours of Tuesday from their Newark home near KwaDukuza, bound…

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