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Die seuns het baie goeie Kidnap victim crawls to safety
rugby gespeel en het dit
baie geniet.
Vervolg van after suspects crash while trying to
bladsy 6 Die o/12 span het 2 uit 4
wedstryde gewen.
SOMERFEES 7'S Die o/13's het al hul flee from EC police
The u/12 and u/13 boys wedstryde gewen en eindig
p a r t i c i p a t e d i n t h e as die wenners van die Written by Se-Anne Rall She said while police officers The two suspects were
Somerfees 7's tournament toernooi. Senior Digital Journalist, IOL News were busy on scene, they charged with hijacking,
from 11-12 October in Well, done boys. You made heard noises coming from kidnapping and possession
Burgersdorp. us proud. the boot. of an illegal firearm and
ammunition.
"Upon further investigation,
an unknown man crawled They are both expected to
his way from the boot appear in the New Brighton
through the back seats and Magistrate's Court.
informed the members that
he was hijacked," she said. IOL News

Two suspects have been arrested and a kidnap
victim rescued after a high speed chase ended in a
crash in the Eastern Cape’s New Brighton area.
Picture: SAPS
A man, who had been hijacked and shoved into
the boot of his vehicle, managed to crawl to
safety after suspects crashed his white VW Polo
while trying to flee from police.

Po l i c e o f f i c e r s w e r e driver lost control and the car
conducting patrols in crashed into a wall.
Mahambahlala when they Suspects alighted from the
spotted the vehicle driving vehicle and fired at police.
through side streets in the
area. "Officers arrested one
suspect with a firearm in his
"In Seyisi Street, officers possession as well as the
wanted to stop the vehicle driver who was stuck in the
but when the occupants saw crashed vehicle," Janse van The firearm and ammunition that police retrieved
the police, they sped off," Rensburg said. from the suspects. Picture: SAPS
said Eastern Cape police
spokesperson, Captain
Sandra Janse Van Rensburg.

She said police called for
back up and a high speed
chase ensued.

Janse van Rensburg said as
the Polo approached a traffic
circle at Mavuso Street, the
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