The police are correcting investigating the deadly attack on an elderly couple during a home invasion in Muizenberg.
An elderly woman was killed in the incident that happened in a house in Marina Da Gama over the weekend.
No one is yet to be arrested in connection with the attack at the house in Uitsig Road in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The attack led to the death of a 66-year-old woman.
Her 72-year-old husband is currently in a critical condition and he is receiving treatments in hospital.
According to the ER24 paramedics, when they arrived at the scene of the incident, they found the woman’s lifeless body on the kitchen floor.
She was found with stab wounds in the head and back.
Her husband suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen, he was found laying outside the house.
Police said at this stage it was too soon to decide on the merits of the case.