A woman was killed after a hijacking went wrong on Che Guevara (Moore) Road on Saturday night.
According to Lieutenant Pumzile Makaula, communications officer at Umbilo SAPS, the woman’s boyfriend was allegedly dropping her off on Che Guevara Road when the incident occurred. “As they were seated in the car, they heard a knock on the door and two men approached them. One suspect told the driver to get out as he wanted to speak to him. The driver allegedly pressed the panic button for his tracking device and tried to drive off. As he drove the suspect started shooting at the vehicle. The driver headed to a nearby service station on Che Guevara Road to ask for assistance as his girlfriend had been shot. He wasn’t from the area so needed directions to the nearest hospital,” she explained.
The couple were driven by a good Samaritan in the victim’s silver Polo to King Edward hospital. Sadly, however the woman was declared dead on arrival.
In a separate incident at Umbilo Park on Friday morning, a man who had stopped to take a photograph at Umbilo Park, was approached by two suspects who pointed a firearm at him. “The suspects allegedly took the victim’s keys, camera, cellphone and jumped into his white Subaru and drove off.
Makaula encouraged motorists to comply if confronted by criminals.
Truck drivers cautioned
Umbilo police encourage truck drivers visiting the Umbilo area to be extra vigilant when offloading goods.
Lieutenant Pumzile Makaula, communications officer at Umbilo police said there was a noticeable increase in incidents of theft out of trucks and asked truckers to refrain from sleeping in vehicles as it was not safe.
“Last Thursday at about 2am, a man parked his truck on Melbourne Road locked his vehicle and slept inside. When he woke up an hour later he discovered a lock had been broken on the truck and more than two dozen bags of rice was missing. A group of men were seen by a security guard as they unloaded the bags into a bakkie and drove off,” explained Makaula.
In the early hours of Saturday morning another truck driver lost two pallets of peanut butter and beans on Alpha Crescent, Congella. “The man parked the company truck and was allegedly waiting for his turn to off-load the stock when he noticed the tarpauline had been cut off and stock was missing,” she said.
Makaula said another theft occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning when a truck driver secured his vehicle and went to sleep in the truck. “When he work up he noticed the tarpauline had been cut and multiple packets of mealie meal stolen,” she said.
In another weekend incident a trucker secured his truck on South Coast Road and went to buy something from a garage shop close by. He returned to find three men at his truck. “The men allegedly asked him for a lift and when the trucker said he wasn’t allowed to give lifts, one of the men pointed a firearm at him and took goods which they allegedly loaded onto a vehicle before fleeing,” added Makaula.
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