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NATIONAL NEWS: Security officer shoots hijacker

A Hartbeespoort security officer saved the lives of three men when he accidently came across a hijacking and shot the armed hijacker who reportedly later died.

Christopher Nicholson (26), a security officer at Fidelity in Hartbeespoort was on his way back from Pretoria to Hartbeespoort on Monday morning shortly after 08:00 when he happened to witness the attempted hijacking, the Kormorant reports.

“We stopped at a red traffic light and I saw a white BMW stop behind a blue Mercedes. An armed man jumped from the BMW and ran to the front passenger side of the Mercedes, opened the door and shot at the driver,” Christopher told Kormorant.

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