The police in Carletonville are investigating house robbery and attempted murder cases following another attack on a farm in the area this week. This crime took place at one of the smallholdings in the Bultfontein area outside Carletonville on April 7.

The owner woke up at about 02:00 from a loud bang outside the house. He got up and went to the bathroom.

He then heard something in the adjacent room and went to check what was going on.

To his horror, he saw an unknown man busy forcing the window open. He yelled at the man and then heard a gunshot go off.

He ran to his wife in the bedroom and told her to call the neighbourhood watch. The attackers fired another shot at him while he ran to the lounge to get his cellphone.

The owner then locked himself in the kitchen. While inside, he heard how one of the attackers brought his wife and their 22-month-old baby toward the kitchen.

He then had no choice but to open the door for the robbers.

Four masked attackers tied them up and proceeded to ransack the house. Two of the thugs had firearms, another a knife, and their other accomplice a pipe wrench, and they spoke Afrikaans and English. The criminals stole various electrical goods and loaded them onto the owner’s bakkie. As the robbers were about to leave, they saw people who had responded to the wife cry for help coming towards the house.
They abandoned their loot and ran into a maize field.

By printing time, the attackers had still not been arrested.

The police suspect that these criminals are the same group who attacked an 80-year-old man on his smallholding at the nearby De Pan smallholdings on March 30.

Although they badly assaulted the old man, the robbers also ran off without their loot when they were intercepted by members of the police in Khutsong. Anyone with information on their whereabouts can call Colonel Wessel Prinsloo on 082 463 0236.