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| Some of the stolen tyres |
…as
kombi with stolen tyre loot overturns in high-speed chase
Blessed Chauke
MASVINGO – A
robbery went wrong in the early hours of today after the driver of a kombi that
had been stashed with stolen tyres lost control of the vehicle and fell on the
roadside after a high-speed chase by the rapid response team from Junior
Security Company.
Though
the police were not available to give a comment immediately, TellZim
understands that some 112 brand new tyres of assorted type and sizes, and with a worth of over US$40 000 dollars, were recovered.
A
source who refused to be named said four robbers attacked and tied the Junior Security
guard manning the Crown Duo tyre outlet close to Byword Motors in the
industrial area of Masvingo.
They
then loaded the brand new tyres into their Mazda kombi and into the trailer.
Unbeknown
to them, the security guard, despite his hands being tied-up, had managed to
pull out a small cell-phone from his pocket which he used to painstakingly sent
an SOS text message to the security control room.
A
rapid response team was then dispatched, only to find the robbers still loading
their loot.
One
of the robbers who acted as a sentry then alerted his colleagues that they had
been busted and the overloaded kombi, tugging an overloaded trailer, took off
at high-speed towards the VID Masvingo Depot but it fell just after the DocZine
Fuels service station.
The
ruffians, however, managed to extricate themselves from the wreckage and fled
the scene on foot.
No
arrest had been made by the time of writing after the police reacted hours
later.
TellZim
saw the recovered tyres and the damaged vehicles parked at Masvingo Central
Police station for exhibit.
