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Daily News reports that the police constable who was arrested on Friday after allegedly shooting dead his superior inside the Ekhombe Police Station in Nkandla, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, had been under the influence of alcohol.
Apparently Sergeant Malusi Thokazi Sibisi, 43, who was on duty at the time, had gone to ask off-duty police officers who lived near the station to keep the noise levels down. When Sibisi arrived there, he found the 30-year-old constable, who had earlier called in sick, among the group of off-duty officers. Sibisi then used his cellphone to record the constable socialising with his colleagues. Shortly after Sibisi left to return to the station, the constable also left the party. Sibisi and two other officers were inside the police station when the constable walked in shortly before 10pm night and fired three shots with his service pistol. Sibisi died at the scene. After committing the act, the constable apparently threw his service pistol on the counter and was arrested. The suspect was expected to appear in the Nkandla Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
- Read the full original of Anelisa Kubheka’s report on this story at Daily News
- Read too, Two more SAPS officers slain in KwaZulu-Natal, at Algoa FM
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