<p>Anni Dewani, 28, and her husband 31-year-old Shrien had left a restaurant with a driver in a car when they were hijacked by two gunmen near Cape Town, The Sun reported Monday.<br /><br />The assailants forced out the driver and drove off with the newlyweds inside.<br />About an hour later, the gunmen stopped and threw out Shrien, who managed to flag down a passing motorist. <br /><br />A police team spotted the vehicle abandoned two miles away in the township of Khayelitsha near Cape Town. Anni's blood-soaked body was found on the back seat. She was covered in bruises and was suspected to have been raped.<br /><br />She was a mechanical engineer of Ugandan-Indian descent from Sweden. <br />It is believed she was hit in the head, but other reports suggested that she may have been stabbed. <br /><br />"It is truly horrific. Our guys are used to dealing with tough situations but this they found hard to cope with," a police officer was quoted as saying.Shrien, a resident of Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, operates a chain of nursing care homes that is owned by his family.<br />The couple married two weeks ago at a resort outside Mumbai, India. <br /><br />The media report said that the newly-weds attended an event in the town of Somerset West Saturday. They were returning to their five-star Cape Grace hotel in Cape Town when they took their detour through the Guguletu township. <br /><br />They are believed to have stopped at Mzoli's restaurant where diners can barbecue their own food. "Under the right circumstances, and in daylight, townships needn't be too dangerous.," a source said. <br /><br />"But weekend nights are notoriously volatile. Many local people get paid on Fridays and so Saturdays everyone drinks away their wages. Some would say it was suicide for a young foreign couple to go to Guguletu on a Saturday night," he said.</p>
<p>Anni Dewani, 28, and her husband 31-year-old Shrien had left a restaurant with a driver in a car when they were hijacked by two gunmen near Cape Town, The Sun reported Monday.<br /><br />The assailants forced out the driver and drove off with the newlyweds inside.<br />About an hour later, the gunmen stopped and threw out Shrien, who managed to flag down a passing motorist. <br /><br />A police team spotted the vehicle abandoned two miles away in the township of Khayelitsha near Cape Town. Anni's blood-soaked body was found on the back seat. She was covered in bruises and was suspected to have been raped.<br /><br />She was a mechanical engineer of Ugandan-Indian descent from Sweden. <br />It is believed she was hit in the head, but other reports suggested that she may have been stabbed. <br /><br />"It is truly horrific. Our guys are used to dealing with tough situations but this they found hard to cope with," a police officer was quoted as saying.Shrien, a resident of Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, operates a chain of nursing care homes that is owned by his family.<br />The couple married two weeks ago at a resort outside Mumbai, India. <br /><br />The media report said that the newly-weds attended an event in the town of Somerset West Saturday. They were returning to their five-star Cape Grace hotel in Cape Town when they took their detour through the Guguletu township. <br /><br />They are believed to have stopped at Mzoli's restaurant where diners can barbecue their own food. "Under the right circumstances, and in daylight, townships needn't be too dangerous.," a source said. <br /><br />"But weekend nights are notoriously volatile. Many local people get paid on Fridays and so Saturdays everyone drinks away their wages. Some would say it was suicide for a young foreign couple to go to Guguletu on a Saturday night," he said.</p>