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4 rob praying pastor at service
08/05/2008 09:18 - (SA)
Virginia Keppler, Beeld
Pretoria - Four robbers overpowered, tied up and robbed a praying pastor and elderly members of a Seventh Day Adventist Church on Monday afternoon.
Captain Solly Marindi said that the pastor and two elderly men had gone to the home in Block M, in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, of an 80-year-old woman, whose husband had recently died, to pray for her, when they were attacked by the armed robbers.
He said there also had been two pre-school children in the house.
"They took the pastor's tie from his neck and used it to tie his hands behind his back.
"Then, the robbers tied the hands of the other people and the children with the cord of an iron and duct tape, and closed their mouths with duct tape."
Marindi said the robbers took the people's cellphones and the pastor's money before they fled in his blue Toyota Corolla.
Marindi said the police investigation was continuing.
- Beeld
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