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Media Statement
ZWELITSHA – The SAPS Management has launched a manhunt for suspects who shot and killed a police Constable and left other police officials injured during a business robbery in the early hours today 15 July 2024 at Mbizana Main Road. The incident took place in a filling station at Mbizana CBD when the 35-year-old Constable and other police officials were driving from a crime scene in three different police vehicles. According to the information, the report suggests that Police members were from a crime scene at Ezityatyaneni Locality outside Mbizana when they were ambushed by +-20 suspects next to the filling station. The suspects then fired shots to the police officials that were in these vehicles and fatally wounded a Constable while other police officials were injured. After the shootout, the suspects took the police firearms and tried to explode the filling station safe with no success and fled the scene. Cases of murder, attempted murders and business robbery have been opened for investigation. Detectives from the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (known as Hawks) will be investigating the case. The identity of the deceased constable will be released once his next of kin has been informed. The Eastern Cape Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant General Nomthetheleli Mene assured that anyone disturbing peace and killing police who are protecting the communities would be arrested and prosecuted while she also castigates lawlessness and criminal insanity. “The killing of the police official while serving the members of the community undermines the efforts by the state to combat and prevent crime,” she added. Ends
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