The violent gang of 11 young men aged between 18 and 22 had been behind a vicious mini-crime wave in the suburb of Durban for over a year and were wanted for at least five murders.
They had used automatic weapons, pistols and machetes to bring fear to locals and forced three families out of their homes in Mariannhill which they took over as their gang HQ.
Luckily South Africa has strict gun control laws to prevent this very thing. The article continues:
But on Wednesday their luck ran out when a team of elite firearms officers were sent in to deal with them after they gang-raped a helpless woman in front of her mum and sister.
The masked and armed gang burst in through the kitchen door on March 28 and beat the 52-year-old mother and her two daughters age 16 and 24 in a blatant house robbery.
But then their attention switched to the eldest daughter who they then began to strip and then gang rape while the terrified mother and younger sister had to watch and listen.
Less than a week later nine of the gang lay dead in their HQ which had been turned according to locals into an 'abattoir' where they died during a two-minute gun battle with cops.
Swift justice was delivered on the ruthless gang by the crack KZN Provincial Stabilisation Team who had been mobilised after a tip-off as to where the gang were hiding out.
Angered by the brutal rape which had inflamed tempers in the terrified community the police team went in under the cover of darkness but a lookout warned the criminals.
The gang made the mistake of opening fire first and in a devastating response the firearms unit returned a barrage of fire which ended the young lives of the 9 desperados inside.
Two of the gang are believed to have escaped and are being hunted down by the team.
Yesterday the families of the nine dead gang members made a tearful procession past a dozen police vehicles and pathology teams to identify the bloodied bodies of their loved ones.
You can almost hear the anguished cries of "but de dindu nuttin'!"
I've been told they're just like us.
ReplyDeleteAnne Frank also thought that everyone was good at heart.
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