Cases of mugging often increase towards the holidays as thugs feel that people have money mostly from savings and bonuses earned.
Most of these wayward young men also are under pressure to impress their strings of girlfriends, so they, unfortunately, chose the life of crime.
The two young men shot along Manyanja Road are notorious biker gang from Dandora.
DCI report
Last night (Thursday) at around 9:45 p.m, officers on routine patrol gunned down two armed criminals who were robbing unsuspecting pedestrians off their valuables, along Manyanja Road.
The duo riding a motorcycle KMFB 373Q, had just accosted a pedestrian & robbed him off his valuables, before our hawk eyed officers pounced on them.
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Earlier, the assailants had snatched a handbag from an unidentified woman. Our officers recovered two pistols from the criminals, three rounds of 9mm calibre and a knife.
The scene has been processed by crime scene experts as other Police processes ensue.
We urge members of the public to be cautious and on high alert, since criminals take advantage of Christmas and other festivities to commit crime.
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