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TUT student arrested for allegedly killing fellow student

Student killed with unknown object after argument

TUT student arrested for allegedly killing fellow student

2 December 2016

Pretoria - A Tshwane University of Technology student was arrested on Friday morning following the killing of another student on campus.

Police spokesperson Captain Kay Makhubele said the two students had had an argument, which led to one of the students being killed with an unknown object.

The incident took place at the Lezard residence on the university's main campus.

The motive was still unknown, Makhubele said, and the student suspected to have been involved in the killing had been arrested and was expected to be charged with murder.

Both students are twenty years old.

Additional information about their identities was still being gathered by the university, according to spokesperson Willa de Ruyter.

This article first appeared on News24, see here