OTHER INCIDENTS WHERE COPS WERE TARGETED:

At Malkerns, police officers were from attending an accident at Makhungutja. The police vehicle was said to have been identified by the gunman through the flashing of its blue lights while returning to the Malkerns Police Station. About three gunshots were fired at the police vehicle, but the gunman missed the target.

Another police vehicle was shot at five times when it stopped at the traffic lights at KaKhoza in Manzini. The vehicle was being driven by Superintendent Thabo Hlophe, who is the Manzini RCBO, and he was driving from Manzini to Matsapha when the incident occurred. No one was injured.

A newly-purchased police escort vehicle was shot at twice by unknown men at KaHlobile in Matsapha along the Ndlunganye Police Academy Public Road.

Houses belonging to police officers have also been a target for arson attacks and some of these are at the Matsapha Police Academy. Vehicles that were parked at the Mbabane Police Camp were set alight by unknown people.

Last month, a senior military man suffered damages amounting in excess of E1 million after his three-bedroom house was torched at around 1pm.

Also, in February, a 43-year-old soldier, who is a son to the late KaLanga Chief, Mlimi Maziya, was shot dead by an unknown man, who was travelling with others in a grey Honda Fit at Lonhlupheko.

In December, unknown arsonists burnt another soldier’s home at KaLuhleko, near Bhunya Police Station, in the wee hours. The two-room house of the member of the UEDF was supposedly petrol-bombed and almost everything inside was reduced to ashes.