Suspect linked to Mount Edgecombe police ambush killed
The suspect was linked to the murder of Sergeant Mandla Khuzwayo and Captain Louis Nel who were ambushed in Mount Edgecombe in April.
A MAN wanted in connection to the murders of two crime intelligence officers has been shot and fatally wounded in a police operation in Inanda.
KZN police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda confirmed that the suspect was killed during a police operation on Friday morning (September 25).
During the operation a SAPS special task force member was wounded. No other details were given at the time.
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The operation ties back to the an ambush and killing of Sergeant Mandla Khuzwayo and Captain Louis Nel on Flanders Drive in Mount Edgecombe in April.
The officers, attached to the SAPS Crime Intelligence unit, were travelling in an unmarked state vehicle when unknown gunmen opened fire on them.
Nel died in the attack while Khuzwayo, who was airlifted to hospital, died several weeks later.
Following the shooting a manhunt was launched with Acting National Commissioner of the SAPS, Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane, at the time saying resources had been mobilised to ‘hunt down’ the criminals involved.
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