One suspect was arrested after illegal miners tried to escape from the Roodepoort Police in Durban Deep four hours ago.
The police stopped next to a veld in one of the unnamed streets just off Albertina Sisulu Road to investigate suspicious activity around a bakkie a few hundred metres from the road. Various suspects fled, but two men who failed to escape were ordered to follow the police vehicle in the bakkie. In the meantime police established that the vehicle was stolen.
The bakkie suddenly sped of in a bid to escape and the police officers opened fire. The driver lost control of the bakkie and crashed into a ditch. When the two suspects tried to escape one was accosted but the other is still at large.