Overview
- A multidisciplinary SAPS team and private security units acted on intelligence about a Volkswagen Golf 7 allegedly used in blue-light robberies.
- Officers spotted the car fitted with blue lights on the R59, a pursuit and gunfire ensued, and the vehicle crashed into a fence in the Parys area.
- Two men dressed in police uniforms were found dead in the vehicle after the crash, according to SAPS spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi.
- Police recovered two unlicensed firearms with ammunition, SAPS uniforms with insignia, blue lights, sirens, and false registration plates from the car.
- Investigators are probing links to multiple robberies between Gauteng and the Free State, and the public is urged to avoid stopping for suspicious vehicles and to report tips to Crime Stop at 08600 10111.