Cop, 3 others die in shoot-out
2002-05-17 11:56
Durban - A policeman and three suspected robbers have been killed in a
shoot-out after a high-speed chase north of here, report KwaZulu-Natal police. A policeman was wounded in the leg and two suspects were arrested.
Police chased five men after they received a tip-off of a
robbery in Newark near Stanger, said Inspector Mfizi Ngcobo on
Friday.
"They chased the men for about 15km to Sundumbili where there was a shoot-out," he said.
Police shot dead three of the suspected robbers. An
inspector was killed and a sergeant shot in the leg.
Ngcobo said the other two men, aged 16 and 25, were arrested.
One of them was treated in hospital in Richards Bay.
The two men are expected to appear in either the Empangeni or
Richards Bay magistrate's court on Monday.
The death of the inspector brings the number of policemen killed since Saturday to four.
Shot in his car
Senior Superintendent Elias Mashau was shot and killed in Soweto on Saturday when wanted criminal Paul Khumalo escaped from a police holding cell.
Detective-Inspector Patrick Khoza was shot and robbed of his
firearm alongside a road in Vosloorus on the East Rand on Monday,
while Sergeant Mohen Govender was shot while sitting in his car at a Tongaat beach on Wednesday night.
In Shoshanguve, Pretoria, on Thursday, a policeman was shot
and robbed of his firearm. He was taken to the Acacia clinic in a
serious condition.
- SAPA