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A 72-year-former farmer was shot in the leg during a shoot-out with attackers on his smallholding at Hankey in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday evening.
olice spokesperson Sgt Majola Nkohli stated the man was inside his condominium when he heard his dogs barking.
“The elderly man had appropriate stepped out of the kitchen door when an unknown alternative of suspects who occupy been standing about a metres faraway from the condominium starting shooting at him. One of the bullets struck his lower leg.”
The wounded man, “who had a firearm, retaliated with several shots in the direction of their direction”, Nkohli stated.
The suspects fled the scene.
“At this stage, it is unknown whether any of the suspects occupy been injured during the incident,” Nkohli stated.
The elderly man was taken to medical institution.
A case of attempted waste was opened.
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Elderly Hankey farmer shot in the leg, fires back at attackers
