Midday Edition: Bloody Spring Day
Updated | By JacaNews
Here's a wrap of the headlines you need to know this Tuesday afternoon.
CLEARWATER MALL SHOOTING - It's been a bloody Spring Day morning in Gauteng with two separate shootings in which three suspected robbers were killed. Two suspected robbers were shot and killed in a parking lot of the Clear Water Mall on the West-Rand.
According to the police, six suspects targeted a courier vehicle, transporting cell phones to the value of about 1.2 million rand.
Two of the suspects were injured, and the other two arrested.
#sapsGP 2 arrested suspects #ClearwaterMall All goods (cellphones) recovered by #SAPS responders after #shootout SD pic.twitter.com/SB9FJMQfJQ
— SA Police Service (@SAPoliceService) September 1, 2015
ARMED ROBBERY : CELLPHONE SHOP. CLEARWATER MALL. JHB. GP. 4 SHOT. 2 DEAD. 2 INJURED. FIREARMS SIEZED. pic.twitter.com/saRYOBHcnK
— REZA (@crimeairnetwork) September 1, 2015
HIGHWAY SHOOTING IN BOKSBURG - On the East Rand, seven suspects in two cars shot at police, while driving on the N12 west in Boksburg.
Gauteng Police spokesperson Katlego Mogale says they got a tip off about the two cars...
STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY IN PARLY OVER RACISM - Students are protesting on the campus of the Stellenbosch University against racism.
This while the management of the university and the Minister of Higher Education, Blade Nzimande, have come in for a tongue lashing in front of the Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Higher Education over transformation at the University.
This follows the documentary called 'Luister', in which black students at the university complained about race discrimination.
DA MP Yusuf Cassim put it like this...
The University's rector, Wim de Villiers, admitted they've had problems implementing transformation...
MIGRANTS WANT TO LEAVE HUNGARY - Police in Hungary are blocking all the entrances to the main international train station in Budapest, after hundreds of migrants tried to get on morning trains to Austria and Germany.
The chaos led to the closure and evacuation of the station.
In August alone 50,000 migrants, mostly from hotspots such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, entered the European Union through Hungary.
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