It has emerged that a 14-year-old teenager allegedly hacked to death only three family members to death with an axe last week. 

It now appears one family member he was thought to have killed, is still alive.  The boy’s case is being delayed while he recovers in hospital from injuries sustained during his arrest.

Earlier, police said that the boy allegedly killed four of his family members in Etwatwa informal settlement in Daveyton in Ekurhuleni, but it’s now reported that the boy’s grandmother is still alive but she’s in critical conditions at the Far East Hospital in Springs.

The teenager’s grandfather says the boy attended what he called a strange church in the area.

But the Church of Satanism in South Africa says the killing is not consistent with its religion.

A senior priest at the Church says the ministry does not condone killing and the use of drugs.  

“I think it’s a misguide thing or it’s related to gang system where they use drugs and get something in the head,” says the Church of Satanism leader.

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