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C5 Shoot Suspect At Arcades, Capture Two More Unharmed After Car Chase
The anti-robbery squad yesterday shot a suspect in the leg as he was fleeing with fellow suspects from an accident scene when their Toyota Corona car punctured its oil sump following an audacious attempt to escape the police dragnet. The car chase was on Thabo Mbeki and involved four suspected criminals in a grey Toyota Corona and three unmarked cars belonging to the anti-robbery squad – popularly known as C5. The police shot one of the Toyota’s front tyres and the car hit into the curbs on the pavement. The suspects abandoned the stranded car and, despite the obvious risk of gunshots, ran on foot towards the new “UNZA Mall” under construction. One of them was immobilised when he was shot in the leg and the other was overtaken under pursuit. The remaining two escaped but one was later in the day captured.
The suspects are said to be of foreign origin.
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on March 6, 2014. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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Trixy
March 6, 2014 at 10:23 am
I was driving along Thabo Mbeki Road yesterday when this happened and I saw everything that happened. It wasn’t a good experience at all.
Simplicity
March 6, 2014 at 10:28 am
Most bandits are non zambians, there are too many foreigners masquerading as masai hair dressers,congolese corridor shoe sellers. In ndola, they have even started putting up adverts of their businesses.
mj banda
March 6, 2014 at 11:01 am
Whether foreign or not, a criminal is a criminal, C5 just shoot them, if these guys find u in your vehicle its hell
Steve
March 6, 2014 at 11:49 am
C5 must just become ZP, they are more serious.
Carlos
March 8, 2014 at 2:11 pm
C5 is a section of ZP,their actual name is Zambia Police Antirobbery Squad.
Kazeze
March 6, 2014 at 11:53 am
C5 should have shot all those buggers dead. No robber deserves to live.
Reasoning
March 6, 2014 at 12:24 pm
That’s C5 for you
kabisa
March 6, 2014 at 12:26 pm
C5 doing a great job!!they always know where the crime is taking place…like its juju
ME
March 6, 2014 at 2:30 pm
C5 good job and they are professional
kwa george
March 6, 2014 at 2:36 pm
WHAT IS THE NATURE OF OFFENCE SO THAT PEOPLE CAN LEARN .IS fleeing an accident scene a shootable offence.
Yambayamba
March 7, 2014 at 8:11 am
@kwa George:
Read the story again and try VERY HARD TO UNDERSTAND the sequence of events being described! For goodness sake, the story is only a paragraph long, and you can’t understand what it is saying???????
QUOTE: “…fleeing with fellow suspects from an accident scene…following an audacious attempt to escape the police dragnet. The car chase…involved four suspected criminals in a grey Toyota Corona and three unmarked cars belonging to the anti-robbery squad…”
Apparently there was a Police dragnet setup. And the Police/C5 does not just setup a dragnet for fun. These suspects must have been wanted or under surveillance, that’s why they tried to elude the C5 and a CAR CHASE ensued. The accident came later. What is so hard about this article for you to be so confused by it?????
Yambayamba
March 7, 2014 at 8:16 am
And yes, running away from law enforcement, especially after a car chase, will get you shot anywhere in the world. They even lucky none of them was shot dead on the spot!!!
Trixy
March 6, 2014 at 2:45 pm
A lot of foreigner in the country for sure. Especially the so called kasais from congo who plait hair. I took my five year old niece to have her hair plaited by them and she screamed “No they smell…they sit with their legs wide open and they smell!!!”
Carlos
March 8, 2014 at 2:15 pm
Iwe those who plait hair are masais from Tanzania. You should research before posting anything.
Bashi fabricus vs mr proud
March 6, 2014 at 2:58 pm
**There are alot of congoles in makeni, they even call themselfs as mr mumba, mr chanda, mr nyambe mr muntinta etc C5 please visit this place, crime should end in zambia.
kayombo
March 6, 2014 at 3:32 pm
I saw four foreigners who looked like Congolese at arcades i was suspicious right on, I suspect they are the ones . C5 should frequent arcades.
mulipa banda
March 6, 2014 at 3:45 pm
Kwa George think twice, y did they run away if he was innocent, whether being found criminals, its a crime since is an accomplice
kwa george
March 6, 2014 at 3:57 pm
@mulapila banda
JUST ANSWER MY QUESTIONS COZ YOU MAY NOT CHOOSE TO BE A PASSENGER OF A CAR FLEEING AN ACCIDENT SCENE.
IN SHORT I WANT THE FULL STORY THAT LED TO FLEEING AN ACCIDENT SCENE.
SIMPLE
Congolese
March 6, 2014 at 6:10 pm
Bushe Ba K.K clean up mwaletele yafwa Shani? Twacula kuma foreigners.
CHIPASA "INGE"
March 6, 2014 at 11:01 pm
a similar incident took place in Mufulira yesterday except that a host of police officers made chase to a taxi driver, shooting and eventually managed to let the chap get into the ditch almost causing a fatality. A they wanted was to get money from him on pretext he was a traffic nuisance.
Cholasa
March 7, 2014 at 9:57 am
Room C5 is where the flying squad is found. So people have ended up calling them C5
ME
March 7, 2014 at 10:10 am
C5 bafee color mulibakali, good job and keep up the professional conduct. I salute you
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March 7, 2014 at 11:20 am
bla bla bla….
chasulwa
March 7, 2014 at 12:05 pm
bapononeni bafikala abo surely c5 are the best of all and we recommend yr work
mike
March 7, 2014 at 12:43 pm
very good you go to parliament and do the same to those wasting gorverment resorces and boycoting instead of discussing prosperity and how they are going to divelop the contry
Danny
March 16, 2014 at 3:35 pm
My thoughts on c5 are as follows,the only reason they know where these robberies or attacks by criminals are is because they share the spoiles with them,I can promises you that a lot of innocent people have been killed by these cops and further more ask yourselves why no official statement was made by the police spokesperson regarding the same incident???v