EASTERN Cape police yesterday would not give any further details on the shooting incident involving the provincial police commissioner, Lieutenant- General Celiwe Binta.
The commissioner, her driver and an unidentified female passenger had been driving towards Lingelitsha township near Berlin just before midday on Saturday when gunmen tried hijacking her BMW X3.
After surrounding the vehicle, the gunmen were said to have forced the driver to stop.
A shot was fired and the bullet penetrated the front driver’s window and exited through the front passenger’s window.
The driver, although wounded, managed to get away and drove them to safety.
On Sunday Brigadier Marinda Mills referred all media enquiries to the office of the provincial safety and liaison MEC Helen Sauls-August.
The MEC's office yesterday said it could not answer any further questions in relation to the incident as it was dealing with its own departmental issues. MEC spokesman Lwandile Sicwetsha referred all media inquiries back to the provincial police. However police refused to comment.
The Daily Dispatch could not establish whether police had arrested the suspects or whether a task team had been formed to investigate the botched hijacking . —
Police mum on Binta shooting incident
The commissioner, her driver and an unidentified female passenger had been driving towards Lingelitsha township near Berlin just before midday on Saturday when gunmen tried hijacking her BMW X3.
After surrounding the vehicle, the gunmen were said to have forced the driver to stop.
A shot was fired and the bullet penetrated the front driver’s window and exited through the front passenger’s window.
The driver, although wounded, managed to get away and drove them to safety.
On Sunday Brigadier Marinda Mills referred all media enquiries to the office of the provincial safety and liaison MEC Helen Sauls-August.
The MEC's office yesterday said it could not answer any further questions in relation to the incident as it was dealing with its own departmental issues. MEC spokesman Lwandile Sicwetsha referred all media inquiries back to the provincial police. However police refused to comment.
The Daily Dispatch could not establish whether police had arrested the suspects or whether a task team had been formed to investigate the botched hijacking . —
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