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4 HELD FOR EXPLOSIVES, PETROL BOMBS

05/07/2021 08:34:00 BY THOKOZANI MAMBA

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SITEKI – Siteki police have arrested four men found with explosives and petrol bombs on Friday.

One of the four was arrested after the police received a tip-off, while the trio was found at a homestead situated just 200 metres from the Siteki Central Transport Administration (CTA) Garage. The Siteki CTA Garage is about a kilometre from the town’s Central Business District (CBD). The quartet will be appearing at Siteki Magistrate Court today. A source confided that police found grenades and other explosives when the men were apprehended.

Appearance

The arrested men’s particulars could not be ascertained pending their appearance in court today. “Police were still investigating and interrogating them. I am not yet sure if charges have been preferred against them. Three were found at a homestead belonging to one of the suspects with cans containing petrol, which police purported that they were planning to bomb properties within the Siteki town. Police are still hunting others down so that they face the wrath of the law,” alleged the source. The trio’s Siphofaneni-based lawyer, Maxwell Nkambule, confirmed the arrests. “Three have already been charged and will be appearing in court tomorrow (today). For now, I will be representing the three and have been informed that there were others who were still being sought by the police linked to the offences preferred against those I am representing,” he said.

Whereabouts

It was also established that there were other suspects who were still at large and police were investigating their whereabouts. The source claimed that they were sceptical to hand themselves over to the police in fear of being killed. “They gathered that among those arrested, one was badly injured during interrogation by the police,” a source claimed. Chief Police Information and Communications Officer Superintendent Phindile Vilakati said her office would issue an official report this week about arrests made by police in relation to the countrywide protests.