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News24 reports that National Police Commissioner General Khehla Sitole has condemned the killing of two off-duty police officers in two separate incidents in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in less than 24 hours.
In the first incident, a warrant officer from the KwaMakutha police station was in his private vehicle on the N2 near the Seadoone off-ramp, about 30km south of Durban, when gunmen travelling in an Audi A3 opened fire on him on Friday afternoon. His bullet-riddled bakkie was left stationary on the side of the road and his body was found in the middle of the road with multiple gunshot wounds. In the second shooting on Friday night, a detective constable was investigating a suspicious vehicle driving up and down a street in Kranskop when he was met with bullets from the occupant of the vehicle. Another off-duty officer responded to the sounds of gunfire and two of the suspects were shot and wounded. Their accomplices managed to drag them into the car and they fled the scene. The stray bullets from the incident left one dead, while another man and woman were taken to hospital and are reportedly in a stable condition. Two bodies of perpetrators believed to have been involved in the Kranskop shootout were traced and found in Seven Oaks, as well as the vehicle used as a getaway car from the scene.
- Read the full original of Canny Maphanga’s report on the killings at News24
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