TimesLIVE reports that two Cape Town law enforcement officers died on Wednesday after being shot for their firearms.  

The officers, aged 54 and 49, were doing protection duty for municipal contractors in Philippi when suspects approached their marked vehicle and fired at them through the windows before stealing their guns.  Police spokesperson Lt-Col Andre Traut said that provincial detectives supported by integrated forces attached to Operation Lockdown had later recovered the stolen weapons.  Four men aged 19 to 33 and a female suspect, 23, were arrested an informal settlement in Nyanga for being in possession of four firearms, two of which were identified as the ones stolen from the slain officers.  Meanwhile the search for the killers of the officers was in full swing, said Traut.  A law enforcement source commented:  "I don’t know what the government is going to do to protect us.  You are nothing without your gun, but they even come for you when you have your gun, they’ll come straight past that gun.”

• Read the full original of the above report by Dan Meyer and Aron Hyman at TimesLIVE

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