The arrests follow several high-profile hits, including rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes & Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane who were shot dead outside Wish on Florida Road in Durban last month. (Read More Here).
KZN police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker said that police acted on the tip-off.
"The driver was arrested not far from the scene and we believe one passenger carrying a firearm may have fled from that vehicle. And the other four were arrested in these two vehicles. In the vehicles, from what we can see now through the window of the vehicles, there‘s a bag containing two high caliber firearms that look like AK-47s."
“One vehicle attempted to speed off but was outsmarted by the police who managed to stop it a few kilometres from the original scene, where the fifth suspect was arrested,”he said.
Police are hot on the heels of the sixth suspect, he said.
“Preliminary investigations have revealed that one of the vehicles was reported hijacked by four knife-wielding suspects in Inanda in March 2023,” he said.
It's alleged that the group was targeting a high-profile individual, however, police could not reveal the identity of the person.
Last month, two well-known celebrities, Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes and Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane, were shot just seven kilometres away from this area.
Meanwhile in an unrelated incident, Naicker said two suspects have been remanded in custody and will be back in the dock on 26 April 2023 in the Pinetown Regional Court following their arrest by the police in Mariannhill.
He said the two suspects, aged 24 and 26, were arrested for cases of armed robbery and the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition which they are alleged to have committed in Pinetown.
“(A) shrewd police investigation successfully placed the two suspects at the crime scenes in Mariannhill and the firearm which was found in their possession was positively linked with the murder of five people who were killed on the same day at two separate crime scenes,” said Naicker.
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