Police foil second attempt to seize arms
Herald Correspondent
Queenstown – A policeman was wounded and a gunman shot dead in an attack on the Cala police station on Sunday night – the second attack on a police station in the province this month.
Police said three armed men had entered the station’s community service centre at 10.30pm and demanded guns from two policemen on duty.
Shots were fired at Sergeant Mkangeli Mbashe and Sgt Mzwanele Shosha, both 32, who returned fire. Sgt Shosha was hit in the neck and one of the attackers was wounded. The other two gunmen fled empty-handed in a bakkie. The injured attacker later died in Cala Hospital.
A suspect was arrested by Cala police yesterday morning.
Police at Nqamakwe police station foiled a similar attack by four armed men on February
