Police say they’ve shot dead one suspect and arrested 17 others following the hijacking of a truck carrying liquor worth R1.7-million in Gqaberha in the Eastern Cape yesterday.
They used tracker dogs to find some of the suspects who had fled to a nearby bush.
Provincial police commissioner Nomthetheleli Menehas commended the officers for making the arrests.
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