UMBILO SAPS appeal to the community and motorists to be extra vigilant while driving or parking in the area after three hijackings were reported in Che Guevara Road in the past week.
According to Umbilo SAPS communications officer, Capt Pumzile Makaula on Saturday night, a man was sitting with a friend on Che Guevara Road when he was approached by three men on all sides of his vehicle. “The men were allegedly armed with firearms and ordered the man and his friend to get out of the vehicle. They took the keys jumped in the white VW Polo and sped off,” she explained.
In the second incident also on Che Guevara Road, on Monday evening around 6.45pm, a man was driving up the road and had just passed Hunt Road. “The man was about to turn into a parking lot when a suspect knocked on his window with a gun. “The suspect allegedly asked the driver to open the door and jumped into the passenger seat of the victim’s vehicle and two other suspects jumped into the back seat and told him to drive. A short distance away the suspects told the victim to get out the vehicle and drove off in his grey Audi A4,” she explained.
Makaula said a similar modus operandi was used in a carjacking later that night, around 8.15pm, also on Che Guevara Road. “A man parked his vehicle, a white Opel Corsa and was on his cellphone when he heard a knock on his window, when he looked up, a man was at his door allegedly pointing a firearm at him. The victim then noticed another man at his passenger side door,” she explained.
Makaula said motorists should be especially vigilant at night and appealed to the public do not talk on cellphones while getting in our out of your vehicle as you become distracted and a soft target.
