Witnesses mum after robbery encounter
According to information from BCI Security, the driver was bundled into the back of the vehicle by seven suspects driving in three vehicles.
No one was willing to snitch (provide information) to the authorities at an informal settlement in Ruimsig after a hijacked delivery vehicle was found abandoned in the area on 20 June.
At about 10am, at a petrol station in Ruimsig, the driver of a cigarette delivery vehicle was accosted and hijacked by suspects who kidnapped him and left him unharmed after offloading the goods in his vehicle.
According to information by BCI Security, the driver was bundled into the back of the vehicle by seven suspects driving in three vehicles.
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Muldersdrift Police spokesperson, Warrant Officer Masedi Masedi, said the driver was taken to a remote area between Cradlestone Mall and the Sasol garage, where the suspects loaded the cigarettes into their vehicles and left the driver. BCI confirmed that when its personnel arrived at the scene, the hijacked vehicle and the driver were found unharmed a short distance away from an informal settlement.
They also noted several empty cigarette cartons strewn over the scene, but despite many witnesses at the scene, no one was willing to give any information to their officers, or to the police, who arrived shortly afterwards.
In spite of the disinterest from the community, Masedi said the Trio Task Team is investigating this matter.
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