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Indians shoot down carjackers in South Africa

Fakir Hassen in Johannesburg

Two car thieves were killed in separate incidents while trying to steal from South African Indian motorists recently.

Praveen Govender of Umhalli, north of Johannesburg, was seriously injured after two men attacked him as he arrived home.

"They dragged him out of the car and shot him, but he managed to shoot dead one of them and injure another," said Police Inspector Pravin Bhagowat. The injured hijacker got away with Rand 30,000.

In a separate incident, a resident of the mainly Indian area of Sea Cow Lake, Kassie Ranchan, shot dead one of three hijackers who ran up to his car while he was driving and forced him out.

The other hijackers, however, escaped in the car with an unidentified passenger.

Carjacking, in which vehicles are stolen at gunpoint, often violently, has become a common occurrence in South Africa. And Indian businessman and professionals, including doctors, who often travel alone late at night after closing their businesses and practices with large sums of money on their person, have become prime targets.

Indo-Asian News Service

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