Two Eastern Cape Police Officers Shot Dead Responding to Spaza Shop Attack
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Two Eastern Cape police officers, aged 51 and 30, were shot and killed while responding to a spaza shop robbery in Ziphunzana Location, Libode, near Mthatha. The officers, from the Mthatha National Intervention Unit and Public Order Policing Unit, were found with fatal gunshot wounds, and their service pistols were missing. Police have opened cases of murder, attack on police, robbery of police firearms, and attempted business robbery. A manhunt is underway to arrest the suspects.
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