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News24 reports that two on-duty members of the Kimberley Flying Squad were shot and killed on Tuesday.
Northern Cape police spokesperson Brigadier Mashay Gamieldien said the sergeant and constable were among a team investigating a stolen sedan car en route to Bloemfontein. The team spotted the vehicle in Kimberley and pursued it. The driver sped off, crashed the vehicle into Transnet premises and then abandoned the vehicle. He fled on foot while firing shots that claimed the lives of the two officers. Police could not confirm reports that the man had taken a firearm from the officers before firing shots. Videos on social media show police officers running through a local shopping mall. A Hawks spokesperson said officers had responded to information that the suspect was at the mall, but he was not found there but somewhere nearby.
- Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Cebelihle Bhengu at News24
- Read too, Northern Cape cops killed in shootout hailed as heroes, at IOL
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