Pretoria - Groblersdal farmer John Prins was shot dead by two robbers on Friday morning.

Police said Prins and his wife were laving their house to look for their dogs when the gunmen shot him in the head.

They tied up his wife, ransacked the house and fled in the couple’s vehicle. It was later recovered.

The murder comes just a week after another farmer in the area 78-year-old Sarel Breedt was shot dead.

Breedt and his wife Ina, 77, were attacked while having lunch outside their farmhouse in Honingsdraai, near Roossenekal, on January 11.

Their assailants tied Mrs Breedt’s hands and feet and left her in the kitchen while they dragged her husband to the bathroom where they tied him to a chair and shot him in the head.

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