PICS: 9 cars, guardhouse petrol bombed at DUT Pietermaritzburg campus
Nine cars have been petrol bombed at one of the Durban University of Technology's campuses in Pietermaritzburg.
DUT says a group of about 10 people gathered earlier on the Indumiso Campus.
It says a petrol bomb was thrown into a guardhouse near the pedestrian gate along Edendale Road, with a security guard inside.
University spokesperson Alan Khan says he managed to escape unharmed and ran towards the DUT Protection Services offices to alert the security team.
"As he ran, the officer noticed that the group of suspects who were chasing him had also set a vehicle on fire. The vehicle belonged to the private security company contracted to DUT."
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"An internal incident report from the University's Protection Services personnel confirmed that the suspects then proceeded to the parking area near the Protection Services offices and set alight eight vehicles belonging to the University and to DUT staff members.
"The suspects then fled towards the gate, which they had initially damaged when they forced entry onto the Indumiso campus."
Khan says the incident report also highlights that students accommodated at the Indumiso campus residence were not part of the attack.
Plessislaer SAPS are investigating the attack.
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