A matric pupil from the East Rand, who was en route to friends to study for the final exams, died shortly after being shot in the face by hijackers.

Minke Aucamp, 18, who was a pupil at the Jurgens High School in Springs, was shot in the mouth as she was leaving her parents' driveway in her Hyundai Atos on Thursday.

A domestic worker, who gave her name only as Ally, told police that she had heard a scream and two gunshots around noon.

She ran to the garage, where she found Minke lying on the ground and saw the Atos being driven away.

Police and paramedics arrived on the scene shortly afterwards, and Minke was airlifted to hospital in Alberton, but doctors declared her dead on arrival.

She was the only child of Carol and Willie Aucamp, who told reporters on Thursday that they had waited ten years to have her.

"She was so young... they could have just taken the car," a devastated Willie Aucamp told Beeld.

Police are searching for the hijacked car, with registration number ZPB435GP.

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Oct 26, 2012

The-Vince

I felt so devastated when i heard this on the news on Metro this morning, but I knw the police will catch these monsters, I mean how does one shoot an innocent school girl who is not even posing threat to you, she was just a girl who had her whole life ahead of her. RIP the girl, and may your family find closure and be healed of the pain they are going through.
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Oct 26, 2012

Kon-Tiki

Outch!! Another sick case beckons us. We are under siege and the criminals are having a field day at our expense. For an Atos, really?
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Oct 26, 2012

The-Vince

It's so shocking what CRUEL animals people have become, they hijack and kill for an Atos gosh, black people come on now, your deeds suppers that of an animal, am black myself at times I just feel like I could have benn of a different race, just a race of my own not seen before or head of, flip people are just evil out there. oh God we need your intervention.
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Oct 26, 2012

MissBhakajuju

this is so d.evastasting...... am out of words.... why couldn't they just take the car ?? are they S.A people, not as if it would have made it any better..... People are E.vi.l. Rha...


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Oct 26, 2012

vampire1

It is a time like these where one remember General Cele, these criminilas are just doing as they please. killing innocent people for what, what was the reason of killing such a lady, crime is out of control in our country,I think is time we bring back death penality.
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Oct 26, 2012

Lehido

Is this the SA that Mandela and Tambo worked hasrd for to liberate?
Is this the SA that we want our kids and grandkids to live in when we are gone?

This is sickening...How do you live with yourself after killing someone?
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Oct 26, 2012

MophemeKoPitori

I said it before: Killl and be Killed; Rape and be Raped; Steal and be Stolen; Highjack and be Highjacked
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Oct 26, 2012

Sentle

This is sad.
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Oct 26, 2012

Thendokhae

this is very sad.

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Oct 26, 2012

ILLUMINATED

So life has become so cheap. What is our hope amidst terrible consequences of sin.

Psalm 46:1-3 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
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