Police officer wounded in Bedfordview shooting
Police arrested six suspects following a shoot-out in Bedfordview in the east of Johannesburg on Friday.
One police officer was shot in the arm and taken to hospital.
The shootout followed a chase between the officers and suspects believed to be driving a car stolen during a house robbery.
Bedfordview police spokesperson André de Jager says the suspects started shooting at the officers after pulling their vehicle to the side of the road in an industrial area.
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“The police managed to arrest six suspects of which three were injured in the shootout and we recovered two firearms.”