Emer-G-Med death: 6 held

The six men who allegedly hijacked and killed a 45-year-old Emer-G-Med ambulance services employee in the northeast of Johannesburg have been arrested, police said.

The incident happened at 6am on Friday when the woman was attacked while driving her white Kia Rio.

On Saturday, Gauteng police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters said: “The police immediately mobilised maximum resources as per the SA Police Services 72-hour reaction plan and embarked on an intelligence-driven operation that led them to a tavern on Fourth Avenue in Alexandra.”

Video footage circulating on social media of the incident was met with outrage and condemnation.

The commentary around the video not only centred on how crime is increasingly out of hand in the country, but that yet another woman was a victim.

Peters said 17 people were arrested at the tavern in Alexandra, but only six were linked to the crime.

“Further investigations linked the arrested suspects to three more robberies, including a business robbery at a U-Save shop reported in Alexandra in October, and a business robbery at a Chicken Licken reported in Bramley this month,” Peters added.

Gauteng police commissioner Lieutenant General Elias Mawela lauded the officers who made the arrests and encouraged them to continue the hard work to turn the tide on crime in the province.

The men will appear in the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court today.