A suspected robber is in critical condition at a hospital near Germiston after he was shot during a robbery, Johannesburg police said on Saturday.
The man and his alleged accomplice entered a shack in the Delmore squatter camp between Germiston and Boksburg on the R21 highway at about 4.10am.
”The complainant and his wife were sleeping in the shack when two suspects entered … and he saw two men carrying guns. He screamed, two shots went off and the robbers ran outside … and another shot went off,” said police spokesperson Constable Tsietsi Lamola.
The 35-year-old complainant then found a man with a gunshot wound to the head.
Reiger Park police found one pistol, seven cellphones and one 10-million Zimbabwean dollar note in the wounded man’s possession.
He was taken to the nearest hospital and remains in a critical condition under police guard.
An attempted murder and robbery case have been opened. – Sapa