KZN family fights off armed robbers
Police have opened an attempted robbery case after a 20-year-old woman and her family were allegedly attacked by two men at the Mzimayi bridge in Hibberdene, KwaZulu-Natal, on Tuesday evening.
Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Zandra Wiid said one of the men allegedly held a knife to the woman’s ribs before grabbing her backpack and slicing it open while the second man reportedly held a knife to her face.
Wiid added the woman’s mother sprang to her daughter’s defence and managed to hit one of the suspects while her uncle hit the other with a stick.
The suspects then fled without taking any belongings.
No injuries were reported.
In a separate incident, 20-year-old Sachin Soni was shot twice in the stomach while protecting his father during a house robbery in February last year.
Five armed men forced their way into the family’s Greenwood Park home in KwaZulu-Natal and demanded cash, jewellery and cellphones.
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Soni died later in hospital.
The father reportedly tried to fight off the attackers with a broom when his son intervened and subsequently got shot.
– Caxton News Service
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