KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) police have assembled a team to lead the manhunt for about seven suspects who killed the Greytown police station commander during a shootout following a business robbery at a supermarket in the town on Thursday evening.
Two suspects were killed and another wounded during the shootout, while a police sergeant sustained an arm injury.
WATCH | KZN Police are searching for 7 men involved in a robbery after a police colonel was killed and another officer was wounded in a shootout following a business robbery in Greytown last night. https://t.co/8K73YQzHab
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Police spokesperson Robert Netshiunda says two rifles and a handgun were recovered after the remaining suspects fled into a mountainous area.
Netshiunda says all available resources will be mobilised to ensure the suspects are arrested.
“If it means we must use air support, we will do that. If it demands the use of drones or helicopters, we will do that. What we want is the suspects, and they must be arrested. It does not matter where they are. There is no mountain that is too difficult for the police to plan. We will go into that mountain. We understand that some suspects in that part of the province commit crimes and flee to Gauteng. We have deployed our intelligence teams to trace them wherever they are spotted.”
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