7 suspects accused of killing South African police officers killed in church gunfight

A police manhunt to apprehend members of an armed gang that killed six officers in a raid on a police station in the country’s Eastern Cape province on Wednesday, has led to the killing of seven suspects accused of carrying out the attack.

Reports say the suspects were shot dead in a gunfight with police at the church after they were cornered as they hid in the church with investigators revealing that ten suspects were also arrested at the church in Nyanga village, while others escaped.

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While speaking with the media, National police commissioner Khehla John Sitole said that the police were determined to bring the alleged police attackers to justice.

“We made a decision that this is not going to happen in South Africa where the state will be undermined by criminals,” he said, according to African outlet News24.

Each year in South Africa, dozens of police are killed but Wednesday’s attack on a police station sparked national outrage.

 

 

 

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