Rhodesfiled family detail the horror of realising a stray bullet hit their daughter's room following last week's truck crash on the R21.
A Rhodesfield family was left reeling after realising a stray bullet from a shootout between suspects and security hit their daughter’s room on June 26.
Cases of liquor stolen during an armed robbery at a warehouse in Kempton Park just moments before the crash filled the truck.According to Gauteng SAPS spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo, police in Gauteng, working with private security officers, intercepted a gang of 44 men during the robbery.'When they arrived at the scene, the suspects were loading liquor to the value of over R15m into four trucks,” he said.
“We went outside to see what had happened. We saw the truck and noticed the authorities were on the scene, and we just assumed it was a car accident.” According to the family member, on further inspection, they found that the bullet had hit one of the walls inside the daughter’s room.
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