EWN reports that Gauteng police have confirmed that a second officer has been killed in the province in just one week.  An officer was shot during a business robbery in Katlehong last week and later died in hospital.  

In a separate incident over the weekend, an off-duty officer stationed at Rosebank was shot dead at his house in Eldorado Park on Saturday morning.  He apparently heard someone fiddling with his vehicle in Devland and got dressed to see what was happening when the incident took place.  Gauteng police have launched a manhunt for the suspects involved in the shootings.  Police management say they are deeply concerned about the number of police killings that have taken place this year, with at least four officers killed already.

• Read this report by Masa Kekana & Mia Lindeque in full at EWN
• See too, Nog ʼn Gauteng-polisieman doodgeskiet, at Maroela Media
• And also, Manhunt for police killers, on page 5 of The New Age of 16 January 2017

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