A post-mortem is due to be carried out on a British newlywed murdered in a carjacking incident while on honeymoon in South Africa.
Shrien and Anni Dewani had been married just two weeks when they were kidnapped by armed men on the outskirts of Cape Town.The couple, from Bristol, arrived in the country on Friday and had gone out for dinner on Saturday evening at a restaurant in the town of Somerset West.
After the meal, they caught a taxi and asked the driver to take them to a nightlife hotspot near the Guguletu township.
But the car was stopped by gunmen who forced the driver out of the vehicle before speeding off with the couple inside.
At midnight the attackers released 31-year-old Mr Dewani unharmed in the township of Khayelitsha.
He quickly alerted police and next morning officers found the cab abandoned with his 28-year-old wife's body on the back seat.
Alan Winde, tourism minister for the Western Cape, told Sky News the couple had been at an evening function in the wineland region outside Cape Town.
"They were returning to the city at 10pm and they asked the driver to take them to a very well-known hotspot in Guguletu," he said.
"It sounds as though they had gone a little off course when the carjacking took place."
He added Mr Dewani's family had arrived to be with him during this tragic time.
"As a government we are determined to secure not only an arrest, but also a conviction in this case," Mr Winde said.
"We are once again appealing to anyone with further information to come forward and do the right thing."
Albert Fritz, the region's minister for community safety, said an intense investigation was under way.
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