31/08/2022
Bushbuckridge: Mpumalanga police managed to recover a vehicle few hours after it was hijacked at Shatale in Bushbuckridge. The car was recovered next to Skukuza yesterday, Monday 29 August 2022 just after 01:00.
It is reported that a 31-year-old victim was opening the gate in his residential place when two armed suspects approached him and allegedly instructed him at gunpoint to lie down then searched him.
They (suspects) further took his cell phones as well as R1800-00 before they shot him in his right leg. The victim was then forced into his vehicle, a white Mercedes Benz sedan and they drove off with him. The victim was later dropped off in the bushes in Shabalala Trust where he was left to fend for himself.
He was lucky as a passerby saw him and summoned an ambulance which took him to the hospital. After information was shared with White River K9 Unit members who were busy with their routine patrols managed to track the car down at Phola, Masoyi yesterday, Monday 29 August 2022 at about 13:00.
The vehicle was found abandoned in a dilapidated house. No arrests have been made as yet.
