Officers were conducting a stop-and-search operation at the time of the incident.
A 30-year-old police officer has been gunned down in Khayelitsha on Cape Flats. Police spokesperson Brigadier Novela Potelwa says officers were conducting a stop-and-search operation last night when they came under fire from an armed suspect.
According to Potelwa, during that operation, a crime prevention unit member came under fire from a gunman.
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