Police foil hijacking of truck carrying R60m worth of cellphones

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A security guard and an alleged hijacker were shot dead when police confronted a gang that had targeted a truck carrying cellphones with an estimated value of R60m, SAPS said.

A security guard, as well as one suspect, were fatally shot. No police officers were injured.

She said preliminary investigations linked the suspects to an incident in January, where police pounced on suspects at a house in Lombardy East, interrupting a suspected plot of aggravated robbery. Two AK-47 rifles with loaded magazines, an R-1 rifle with two loaded magazines, and two loaded pistols were recovered.

She said three R-5 assault rifles, two AK-47 assault rifles, one 303 assault rifle, and four pistols were recovered from the six scenes on Wednesday. Four of the eight vehicles seized were positively confirmed as either hijacked or stolen. A jamming device was also seized from the suspects. Gauteng commissioner Lt-Gen Elias Mawela commended the intelligence-driven success. He particularly highlighted the role the highway patrol unit officers played.

 

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