A 35-year-old Limpopo man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 13-month-old baby girl and the injury of her mother by running them over with a pickup van.
Provincial police spokesperson Col Malesela Ledwaba said the incident happened on Friday at about 8pm.
He said the woman and the man her ex-boyfriend had a heated argument while she and the baby were waiting for a taxi to Segopye village, outside Polokwane.
A taxi arrived and she and her baby boarded. On the way, the taxi driver apparently informed her that the pickup van was following the taxi.
They mother and child alighted at Marothi Makwalaneng and her ex-boyfriend, drove over them at high speed, Ledwaba said.