GQEBERHA - The immediate following up of information received about the possible location of a cellphone taken in a house robbery in Sunridge, led police to recover some of the stolen items in a bush yesterday afternoon, 31 May 2022.

It is alleged that on Tuesday, 31/05 at about 11:00, two unknown males entered a house in Cassia Street in Sunridge and held up the domestic worker. She was also shot in her shoulder before been tied up. When the owner of the house and a tenant returned home at different times, they too were tied up. The house was ransacked and hunting rifles, a firearm, 3 cellphones, jewellery, other household items and the complainant’s silver Izuzu bakkie were taken. A neighbour alerted a private security company who found the victims.

At about 15:45, members of the NMB District Crime Combatting Unit followed up on information received and succeeded in tracing the location of one cellphone which led them to the bushes at the corners of Standford and Nooitgedacht Roads where they recovered some of the stolen property. The rifles, three cellphones and a bag containing alcohol was confiscated. The bakkie is still missing.

The injured domestic worker was taken to hospital for treatment.

Police are investigating a case of house robbery.

Source: South African Police Service