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"We ask that you pray for our family and friends and for all the other families that are suffering today. We ask for peace while we grieve," she wrote on social media.

In her early 90s she was suffering from urine infections, delirium and had broken her hip in a fall.

According to the medical examiner’s database, TerBlanche died after suffering “blunt force traumatic head injury likely due to a ground level fall.”

The first officers to arrive on the scene found the woman suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Ms Douglas advised those suffering to not return to work, school or nursery until 48 hours after symptoms end and do not prepare food for others in that time.