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[email protected] copies free weekly Website: www.risingsunchatsworth.co.za Rising Sun Chatsworth @RisingSunChats Taxi Man attempts suicide driver stabbed to death after wife’s murder A case of murder is under investigation at Isipingo SAPS after a After allegedly stabbing his wife to death in Lenham, 38-year-old man was Phoenix on Saturday, a 40-year-old man drove his stabbed several times brother's Jaguar to the Merebank canal in an attempt to in his neck at a taxi allegedly commit suicide. According to a close source, rank in Isipingo on a community member had called the police to report Sunday. It's believed that he had witnessed a vehicle being driven at a high that the deaceased vic - speed into the canal. The witness then saw a man jump tim was a taxi driver. out of the vehicle and dive into the water in an attempt According to mem - to take his own life. "The concerned citizen then went bers of SAPS at the to help the man out of the situation, not realising that he scene, the man was was wanted for murder. He then fled the scene," the found dead with sev - source said.