Members of the National Intervention Unit (NIU) followed up information about armed suspects who were traveling in a Toyota Hilux light delivery vehicle, on Wednesday morning.
The vehicle was followed from Nyanga and when the suspects spotted the police vehicle on Jakes Gerwel Drive, Mitchell’s Plain, they opened fire at the police vehicle. Police members returned fire, fatally wounding one adult male and arresting four others. An AK47 rifle and two 9mm pistols with ammunition, were recovered on the scene. Two private vehicles were damaged when the suspects’ vehicle collided with the vehicles.
The circumstances surrounding the death of the one suspect are under investigation by IPID, while the remaining suspects aged between 27 and 45, are detained awaiting their first court appearance in Mitchells Plain on charges of possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, attempted murder, and attack on police.
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