The Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Service in Limpopo, Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe, has ordered the police in Musina, Vhembe District to mobilize resources and activated a massive manhunt for a group of suspects who stole valuable items at farms in the area.
According to the reports, two employees were in their farm house, not far from the owner’s house, when the armed suspects intruded into their house, pointing them with firearms. The farm employees were ordered by the suspects to the owner’s house, who was not present. The suspects then grind the safe and ransacked the house, stole items including two pellet guns, one shotgun, mattresses, clothes, bag, blankets, and cellphones amongst other properties.
When the suspects were about to flee from the scene, the owner arrived with another vehicle and confronted them. A shootout ensued, and suspects bumped the owner’s vehicle. The suspects alighted from Mahindra and fled on foot.