Eastern Cape cops smoke suspected cigarette robber

02 July 2015 - 17:38
By Zwanga Mukhuthu

Just three weeks after police released the images of suspects wanted in connection with a string of British American Tobacco van robberies‚ Eastern Cape police have shot and killed a suspect. Police spokeswoman Colonel Sibongile Soci said they had also recovered boxes of cigarettes valued at R100‚000 in the vehicle the man was travelling in.

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