Police station petrol bombed as protesters tried to occupy RDP houses

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National police commissioner Gen Khehla John Sitole has condemned the petrol bombing of a satellite police station in Nigel early on Friday after protesters were prevented from illegally occupying RDP houses.

Protesting community members tried to illegally occupy about 600 RDP homes at Mackenzieville earlier in the day, said national police spokesperson Brig Vishnu Naidoo.Community members barricaded the road to the houses and while police members were policing them, another group allegedly petrol bombed the nearby Alra Park satellite police station.

Protest action in Mackenzieville, Nigel. Protesters are closing the roads with burning tyers and set Alra Park Police Station alight, please avoid when in area.

 

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