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‘We will hunt them like wild dogs’‚ says deputy police minister after army base robbery

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The newly-appointed deputy police minister has vowed to “hunt these criminals like wild dogs” after a military base in Cape Town was stormed and the soldiers robbed in the early hours of Friday morning.

In a statement issued on Saturday morning‚ deputy minister Bongani Mkongi said he was angered by what had happened‚ describing the suspects as “heavily armed lunatics“. According to reports‚ the gang stormed the SA National Defence Force base in Khayelitsha‚ overpowering guards and taking their rifles off them.

Stolen army rifles will end up in gangsters’ hands‚ warns military unionThe army’s union has warned that the weapons stolen from the Khayelitsha army base would land up in the Cape Flats “where there is a gang war” going on.  

“We will not sleep. We will hunt these criminals like wild dogs chasing after them. We will find them and make sure they rot in jail like all other hardened criminals who tried and failed to undermine the state and the people of the Republic‚” said Mkongi.

 

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