A teacher was hacked to death with a machete in front of a shocked classroom of primary school students in South Africa, media reports said on Thursday.
Guilford Shapo, 53, was killed Tuesday at Masehlong Primary School in the northern town of Polokwane, where he was observing seventh-grade students taking an exam, SABC public radio reported.
His 40-year-old brother, who has not been named, has been charged in the case, it said.
"We were alerted by the pupils as they screamed and ran out of the mobile classroom," principal Noko Moabelo told The Star newspaper.
"Mr Shapo was the only male teacher at the school. As women, none of us could take the risk of approaching the suspect," she said.
Neighbours heard the screams and dashed to the school, where they restrained the man as he was still hacking at his brother's body, the paper added.
A South African man has been charged with murder after his brother was hacked to death in front of his pupils near the northern town of Polokwane.
Guilford Shapo, a teacher at Masehlong Primary School, was attacked while invigilating an exam on Tuesday, South Africa’s public broadcaster reported.
His younger brother Happy Shapo has been charged with the crime, police spokesperson Ronel Otto told the BBC.
Mr Shapo was not asked to plead and the case was postponed until next week.
