South Africa Toddler Murders: Five Arrested

Angry residents of a slum area of Johannesburg where two toddlers were found dead in a communal toilet have demanded police hand over the suspects.

The mutilated bodies of the girls, aged two and three, were found in Diepsloot shantytown, in the north of the city, three days after they went missing.

A fifth suspect had been arrested in Alexandra shortly before the crowd gathered outside a police station, blocking streets with rocks and rubble and setting fire to hundreds of tyres.

One of the protesters held a banner reading: "Stop raping and killing our children."

The suspect was held after police issued an e-fit and offered a 100,000 rand (£6,800) reward.

Residents called for an end to violence against children in South Africa

He is due to appear in court in Pretoria next week.

The five suspects - all aged between 29 and 47 and from the Diepsloot township - face rape, murder and other charges.

The victims have been identified locally as two cousins - Yonelisa and Zandile Mali.

The murders have shocked the country and been condemned by President Jacob Zuma.

"These gruesome incidents of extreme torture and murder of our children do not belong to the society that we are continuously striving to build together," he said in a statement.

Police officers kept back crowds who had gathered to vent their anger

Police are investigating whether the toddlers' killings are linked to the murder of a five-year-old girl in the same area in September.

Officers said she had been sexually abused and strangled.

Diepsloot, which borders one of the country's wealthiest gated estates, Dainfern, is among the most impoverished areas in Johannesburg.

Some parts of the township have no running water and residents share pit latrines or mobile toilets.

South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, with around 16,000 people killed every year, according to official statistics.

Over half the 54,000 crimes recorded against children between 2010 and 2011 were sexual offences, according to the UN children's organisation Unicef.

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