Pedestrian muggings continue
Durban North SAPS concerned over spike in pedestrian muggings in the past two months.
THE string of pedestrian robberies has continued unabated in the Durban North/uMhlanga area with the ninth case being reported last week. Durban North SAPS spokesman, Lt Raymond Deokaran, urged residents to walk in groups wherever possible to avoid falling victim to muggers. Last week a pedestrian waiting for a taxi on Armstrong Avenue was robbed of his cellphone and wallet with R1 000 in it.
“Two men stepped up to him on either side and one of them jabbed a knife into the pedestrian’s side. They demanded his belongings before fleeing on foot.”
In Febraury a woman was robbed of her cellphone by men pretending to ask for directions while another pedestrian was robbed of her handbag on the M4 waiting for a taxi. The most bizarre case recorded so far this year was a pedestrian who was left trouserless after he was robbed by three men armed with a knife on Twighlight Drive recently.
The incident occurred at about midnight just behind Gateway shopping centre. The victim remembers seeing a large group of people pass him. Three of the men from the group then followed him and held him up with a knife and took his phone, cash and the jeans he was wearing.
