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TimesLive reports that two Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officers have been discharged from hospital after they were attacked by a taxi driver and passengers in Cosmo City on Saturday.
A statement from the city’s public safety department indicated the following: “The JMPD officers were called to attend to an incident and stopped the suspicious minibus taxi on the corner of Angola Road and South Africa Road. When the suspicious taxi was pulled over and questioned‚ the driver and his passengers became aggressive and attacked the officers. The suspects managed to disarm one of the officers and took a cell phone away from them. During the scuffle‚ two of the officers sustained minor injuries and were taken to Milpark Hospital for treatment. The third officer was not injured.” In a separate incident on Sunday, two officers were attacked during a routine stop-and-search operation at the intersection of Main Reef and Houtkapper roads. A bakkie was stopped for overloading of passengers and as the JMPD officer was busy issuing a citation to the driver‚ one of the passengers became aggressive and assaulted the female JMPD officer and hit another male officer on the face. The suspect was arrested and detained at the Florida Police Station.
Read this report by Naledi Shange at TimesLive
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