A Muldersdrift house robbery spree ended in a shoot-out with police and the arrest of three alleged robbers on Friday, Gauteng police said.<\/p>\n
Lt-Col Katlego Mogale said the first robbery happened shortly after 7pm on Thursday evening, and left a 55-year-old man shot and wounded.<\/p>\n
He was among a group of people outside their home when a barking dog alerted them to the approach of three or four men carrying firearms.<\/p>\n
The group fled into the house, during which time the man was shot.<\/p>\n
While police were investigating that robbery, they heard reports of a second attack — in the early hours of Friday morning — in which a television was stolen.<\/p>\n
Police pursued the robbers to a field near the N14 Swartkop off-ramp, where a shoot-out ensued.<\/p>\n
One alleged robber was shot and another two arrested. A fourth man escaped. The wounded robber was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
Police recovered clothes, two plasma televisions, cellphones and two unlicensed firearms.<\/p>\n
Mogale said they were investigating a possible link between these robberies and the attack last week, in which 13-year-old Alyssa Botha was shot and killed in Muldersdrift.<\/p>\n
“That is being investigated. We are not ruling out that possibility,” Mogale said. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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