WESTERN CAPE – Safer Festive Season operations led to the discovery of a M26-HE hand grenade yesterday, 27 December 2021 at about 16:00.

The members of the Provincial Extortion Task Team were focussed on organized crime grouping, extortion and Illegal liquor outlets in the Nyanga Cluster when they received information about a hand grenade at a dwelling in the Klipfontein Mission Station Informal Settlement. The K9 unit was dispatched to the scene and the hand grenade was recovered. An enquiry into the matter was opened for further investigation.

Furthermore the same K9 unit members were called to a scene in Patricia Close Montrose Park Mitchells Plain yesterday, 27 December 2021 at about 21:45, to locate a grenade hidden in a shack. The explosive dog Architta was used in the search of the grenade and reacted positive in locating the device.

The Cape Town Explosive unit were called to the scene and a Military issued smoke grenade was recovered and removed from the scene. A case of Possession of Military Pyrotechnics will be opened for investigation.

Source: South African Police Service