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Toy gun gets robber killed at Faraday taxi rank (video)

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By Sbonga Sibiya

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1 minute read

18 January 2021

05:57 pm

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Police officers responded to a shooting incident at the Faraday Taxi Rank in the Joburg CBD where a male was shot by a motorist after he tried to rob him of his cellphone using a toy gun. Medics declared the suspect dead on the scene.

Pathologists remove the body of man who was shot by a motorist after he tried to rob him of his cellphone using a toy gun at the Faraday taxi rank in Johannesburg, 18 January 2021. The suspect was declared dead on the scene. Picture. Nigel Sibanda

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