Gauteng police have arrested six suspects in connection with
the fatal shooting of a 45-year-old woman during a hijacking in Bramley, north
of Johannesburg, on Friday morning.
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A video of the
hijacking, where the suspects could be seen hijacking the woman and leaving her
for dead in the street, has gone viral.
The suspects were
apprehended at a tavern in Alexandra.
"A team made up of the South African Police Service and Johannesburg Metro Police Department pounced on the tavern and were able to apprehend a total of 17 suspects, while an unconfirmed number managed to escape,” says Gauteng Police spokesperson, Mathapelo Peters.
"Police were able to link six men to the incident in
Bramley, while the remaining eleven were released as they could not be linked
to any crimes.”
The six arrested suspects have also been linked to three
other robberies, including a business robbery at a U-Save in Alexandra in
October and a business robbery at a Chicken Licken reported at Bramley this
month.
"Police
have now launched a manhunt for six more suspects believed to have been
involved in the commission of these business robberies," says Peters.
The six suspects are expected to appear before the
Alexandra Magistrate Court on Monday.
