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DURBAN - 4 March 2014 - Mourners pay their last respects to Melarisa Kandasamy (left picture), Mala Kandasamy and Megandren Kandasamy at their funeral in Chatsworth. Rajan Kandasamy, Mala's husband and the father of her two children, is lleged to have beaten them to death in their home using a gada -- a traditional Indian mace carried by the Hindu god Hanuman. Picture: Allied Picture Press/APP