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Hijack shoot-out near school
16/02/2007 22:06 - (SA)
Durban - A hijacker was fatally wounded and another arrested in Durban on Friday afternoon, police said.
Superintendent Daniela Veldhuizen said three men held up a shop in Durban's Westville suburb.
They robbed customers and the shop owner of cash, cellphones and jewellery.
As they left the shop they assaulted a woman who had arrived to buy some milk, and robbed her of her car keys.
The three men then drove off in her silver Audi. Police were then alerted and the car was later spotted in Durban's New Germany suburb near a primary school.
Two of the three men were standing next to the car. Shots were exchanged with police. One of the men jumped into the Audi and the Audi sped off. Police did not know at the time that one of the men in the Audi had been wounded.
The third man escaped on foot.
'A body lying in the road'
Shortly afterwards police received a call to say there was a body lying in the road not far from the school.
The Audi was discovered abandoned 50 metres away.
Veldhuizen said that it appeared that the driver had fled to a nearby house and pretended to be the gardener. He told the domestic worker at the house not to tell the police that he was there.
The man then took a six-year-old who was playing in the garden and told the domestic worker he was taking the child to its aunt.
Veldhuizen said the child was thought to be that of the domestic worker's employer. The distraught domestic worker then alerted police and a search was launched in the neighbourhood for the child. Police located the child and the man, arresting him on the spot.
The six-year-old child was unharmed. Police are still looking for the third man.
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