The South African Police Services (SAPS) has denied making any arrests in connection with the murder of two bread truck delivery men in Delft, Cape Town last week.
This follows social media claims that the murderer, alleged to be a Zimbabwean national, had been arrested.
As reported by IOL, the shooting was captured by the truck’s dashboard camera. It showed three men coming under attack last Thursday while they were sitting inside a Sasko bread truck on the corner of Symphony Way and Temprol Street.
The Sasko bread workers were doing deliveries around 8 AM when they were ambushed.
In a widely circulated two-minute video, the men can be seen laughing together moments before they are robbed by armed suspects. Tragically, two of them are then fatally shot in a hail of bullets.
On Thursday, a report along with a picture surfaced on Facebook and WhatsApp, alleging that a man named Martin Magunyi had been arrested by police while on a bus headed for Beaufort West.
The report goes on to say that Magunyi is believed to be wanted for several robberies across the province, including the murder of Sasko workers.
However, police spokesperson, Malcolm Pojie, dismissed the report, saying that a suspect was indeed arrested in Beaufort West on Wednesday, but was not linked to the double murder in Delft. Said Pojie:
Be advised that a 28-year-old Zimbabwean national was arrested in Beaufort West on May 22, 2024, as an undocumented person.
He will appear in the Beaufort West Magistrate’s Court soon. However, he is not a suspect in the Delft double murder of a week ago.
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