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Suspects fatally wounded during N1 shootout between Winnie Mandela Drive and Rivonia Road
Eblockwatch's Andre Snyman commended officials after he quickly went to an active crime scene that was reported on the N1 North, between Winnie Mandela Drive and Rivonia Road on June 5.
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He said the freeway was forced to be blocked off for law enforcement to attend the scene. This is after the officials apprehended a man who was allegedly driving a hijacked car on the highway, according to Snyman.
Snyman took a video, which he shared with Fourways Review, in which a helicopter can be seen parked on the road, along with police and security officers from Fidelity.
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Snyman said he was informed by one of his eBlockwatch members that cops were flying over the area, so he immediately drove to the scene.
A man told him, in a voice note, which he shared with Fourways Review: 'I was driving on my way to a meeting when these cars overtook me, and then the next thing was a shootout. The man in the car, I think he was hijacked, went to hit my car, stopped in front of me, bailed out, and the cops came in and started shooting. I was the last car through, so they taped up the road.'
Snyman said: 'What else can I tell you? It's another day in South Africa. You know, the saddest thing is it's right next to St Peter's Girls College. I mean, the shootout and the bullets flying around, you can just think of how dangerous it must have been. This is the way we're going to take on our criminals.'
One of the security officers from Fidelity said to Snyman, in the video, that the car was occupied by people, but wasn't sure how many of them. It is not clear if there were fatalities or the extent of their injuries.
Captain Mavela Masondo confirmed that three house robbery suspects were fatally wounded during a shootout with the police on the N1 North, between Winnie Mandela and Rivonia off-ramps.
This is a developing story as we await comments from police, Fidelity, as well as the emergency services, to which we reached out for more information.
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