Inside Job? Police in KwaZulu-Natal have launched a manhunt for 20 awaiting trial prisoners still at large, who escaped from a transfer truck this morning in Pietermaritzburg. Five armed suspects with AK47’s stopped and blocked the vehicle. Police say the transport vehicle, which was being escorted by only two SAPS officers, was carrying 45 inmates who escaped, but 25 inmates are now back in custody.
The truck was transporting the prisoners from Pietermaritzburg New Prison to the Local Magistrate’s Court when the group were released from the vehicle by armed men.
KZN police spokesperson Jay Naicker says only two police officers were transporting 45 prisoners when the incident happened.
At 8 AM Wednesday morning the transfer truck was blocked off by a double cab bakkie with five heavily armed gunmen. The suspects pointed firearms at the police officers and forced open the rear of the truck. Thirty-one awaiting trial prisoners escaped out of the 45 that
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