TimesLive reports that the police are mourning the death of two detectives gunned down in Roodepoort on Wednesday. This as police confirmed the deaths of three other police officers in the line of duty in the past seven days.

Two were killed in Eastern Cape and another in Gauteng, said national police spokesperson Brig Athlenda Mathe. Sharing details of Wednesday’s murders, Mathe said: “Two on-duty detectives attached to the Honeydew police station have been shot and killed in Roodepoort. The constable and sergeant were found metres away from a state vehicle. Gauteng police have mobilised resources to find those responsible for this crime.” On Sunday, a constable and his colleagues were shot while attending to a complaint at a house in Saulsville, Atteridgeville. Last Wednesday, a 42-year-old sergeant who was serving as a court orderly at the Motherwell magistrate's court in Gqeberha was gunned down while on duty. On the same day, another officer attached to the public order police unit was gunned down while he was responding to an armed robbery in East London.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Khanyisile Ngcobo at TimesLive

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