Police praised the “courageous heroic taxi driver” who sprang into action while passing the scene of a robbery in Asanda Village, Lwandle, Cape Town, on Wednesday evening.
“Preliminary investigation suggests that the victims, off-duty security guards, were travelling homeward when the driver was accosted and robbed of his telephone and wallet at gunpoint when he stopped at the corner of Hlathi Drive and Solomon Street,” said police spokesperson Lt-Col Malcolm Pojie.It is further alleged that the two accomplices accosted the rest of the passengers and robbed them of their personal belongings. The three suspects left on foot.
”“It is reported that the taxi driver chased down two of the suspects and apprehended them whereafter he handed them over to police who placed them in custody,” said Pojie.“While police were processing the two, the third accomplice, coincidently or not, a colleague of those who were robbed, surrendered to police in acknowledgment of his involvement in the commission of the crime.
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