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News24 reports that three Joburg City Power technicians responding to a call about a faulty meter in Lenasia South were hijacked, robbed and assaulted on Tuesday.
Spokesperson Isaac Mangena said the crew, made up of one man and two women, were travelling in two vans, which the robbers made off with. Mangena said the robbers physically assaulted the male technician. The robbers took their cellphones, bags and toolboxes. He said the robbers also instructed the trio to transfer money from their bank accounts. The robbers abandoned the vehicles in Lawley, near the Meriting Squatter Camp in Lenasia South. Mangena lamented: “This year alone, our teams have been held at gunpoint, robbed of cellphones, laptops, toolboxes, hijacked and injured to the point of hospitalisation – all while servicing the communities in Joburg.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Cebelihle Bhengu at News24
- Read too, City Power technicians hijacked while on duty in Lenasia, at TimesLIVE
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