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Hijackers strike 5 times in Dbn
03/06/2005 20:33 - (SA)
Durban - Hijackers hit a pre-school lift-club and ambushed a convoy of new cars en route to Zimbabwe in separate incidents in the Durban area on Thursday, police said.
Inspector Thulani Mkhize said a mother was dropping off pre-schoolers at a house in Nazareth, near Pinetown, when three men in a car pulled up next to her, threatened her and took the car.
It was only when she calmed down that she realised the children were not there and had run away of their own accord, said Mkhize.
The children were found later.
Alerted to the hijacking, Pinetown police gave chase on the M1 highway near Chatsworth, arresting two of the hijackers in a shootout which ensued after the had crashed the stolen car into a minibus.
The third man, still in the other car, was arrested later, he said.
Convoy of new vehicles
In another case, on the N3 at Berea West, seven robbers in a white Volkswagen Polo and a red minibus forced off the road a blue minibus which was the last in a convoy of new vehicles.
When the driver flashed his headlights to show he was in difficulty, the drivers of the other vehicles in the convoy pulled over and stopped, said Mkhize.
The hijackers robbed all the drivers of their wallets, but stole only the blue minibus.
In a third case in West Street, two women armed with pistols forced a 46-year-old man into the boot of his brown Toyota Corolla - with Singapore registration plates - in the parking lot of his block of flats.
They drove off with him, but later dropped him, unhurt, on the Jan Smuts highway.
A taxi conductor and driver were also released after a similar incident, involving four hijackers, in Umlazi.
Mkhize said a motorist who stopped to repair his car's faulty exhaust-pipe in Folweni escaped harm when two men held him up, forced him to start his car and drove off with it.
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