{"id":918100,"date":"2022-01-20T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/armed-robbers-open-fire-at-motorist-at-a-pmb-petrol-station-and-hijack-his-bakkie\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T18:33:09","slug":"armed-robbers-open-fire-at-motorist-at-a-pmb-petrol-station-and-hijack-his-bakkie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/armed-robbers-open-fire-at-motorist-at-a-pmb-petrol-station-and-hijack-his-bakkie\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed robbers open fire at motorist at a PMB petrol station and hijack his bakkie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DURBAN – An Isuzu bakkie was recovered by Magma Security & Investigations and SAPS near Mooi River on Wednesday after armed robbers, including two women and a man, opened fire at a man at a Pietermaritzburg garage and stole his bakkie.<\/p>\n

Shaheen Suleiman, the owner of Magma Security & Investigations, said at approximately 1:40am on Wednesday morning, Magma PMB Central Armed Response received a call from the control centre that a silent panic had been activated at a petrol station..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Suleiman said they immediately responded and were informed by the complainant and the cashier that the suspects arrived in a white VW Polo and had taken possession of the complainant’s white Isuzu bakkie.<\/p>\n

Provincial police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele said it was alleged by the complainant that he was at a garage on Victoria Road in Pietermaritzburg on January 19, when a suspicious vehicle with three occupants pulled up and opened fire at him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victim managed to escape and called the police who chased the suspects,\u201d said Mbele .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Suleiman Magma members chased the two vehicles. \u201cShots [were] being fired from the Polo vehicle at the armed response.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the chase ensued up Old Howick Road towards Hilton with Magma Hilton Armed Response joining in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe driver of the Polo lost control of the vehicle and it overturned. One suspect from the vehicle fled on foot,\u201d said Suleiman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Suleiman said a woman was arrested and a 9mm pistol with a magazine and rounds was recovered.<\/p>\n

He said members continued chasing the hijacked Isuzu bakkie together with the SAPS K9 unit who responded to a call for back-up.<\/p>\n

Suleiman said the bakkie was stopped at the Mooi River Toll Plaza where a man and a female passenger were arrested.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cA 9mm type gas gun was recovered,\u201dhe said.<\/p>\n

Police said charges of attempted murder, armed robbery and carjacking have been opened at Pietermaritzburg SAPS for further investigation.<\/p>\n

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DURBAN – An Isuzu bakkie was recovered by Magma Security & Investigations and SAPS near Mooi River on Wednesday after armed robbers, including two women and a man, opened fire at a man at a Pietermaritzburg garage and stole his bakkie. Shaheen Suleiman, the owner of Magma Security & Investigations, said at approximately 1:40am on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}