THE recent spate of taxi robberies that have plagued Windhoek continued over the Easter weekend with another incident reported on the Monte Cristo road in Katutura on Saturday.
The Police reported that four suspects in an unidentified taxi robbed a female passenger at gunpoint between 10h00 and 12h00.They reportedly stole N$460 in cash, a laptop computer worth N$5 000 and a cellphone worth N$2 000.No recovery or arrests have been made.* A man was robbed of close to N$10 000 by an armed suspect in Windhoek’s Academia suburb on Friday night. The Police said the incident happened in Sartre Street at around 22h00.* Gunshots rang out in the usually quiet Windhoek suburb of Eros on Saturday night, when three men allegedly tried to rob a motorist at a stop sign in Uhland Street.The robbers smashed the window of the car and then shot at a bystander who tried to help. No one was hurt and the suspects escaped.
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