KZN cop killed in shootout with most wanted suspect in Ntuzuma
A police officer
and four suspects have been killed in a shootout in Ntuzuma.
Police closed in on the group at a home in C-Section on Tuesday after learning that one of them was a most wanted suspect.
"In Ntuzuma, that boy from September until now killed 12 people,” Police Minister Bheki Cele said on the scene.
“He's trigger-happy, killing innocent people because they are members of the CPF. All those people that are crime fighters, all those that are trying to make people safe, he feels those people must be eliminated."
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Cele, who visited the scene of the shootout on Tuesday evening, said National Intervention Unit member, Warrant Officer Sthembiso Mazibuko from KwaMashu, was killed and another officer wounded.
In a separate incident, Cele said four suspected robbers who've been targeting businesses were wounded in a shootout with police in Mzinyathi area.
The gang was spotted in Maphephetheni after hitting a store in the Bhamshela in Nsuze.
