- Note - These are just two of scores of similar stories
we receive. -ed
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- SECUNDA - A 43-year-old woman
was taken from her house in Secunda, Mpumalanga, and allegedly injected
with HIV, police reported on Thursday.
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- Sergeant Charles Nkosi said the woman was injected with
a substance on Monday after an ordeal during which she was kidnapped from
her home and forced to drive her attackers across Mpumalanga from Secunda
to Kriel via Bethal.
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- The woman was abducted after investigating barking dogs
at 03:00 on Monday.
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- She saw a man jumping over a fence when she opened her
front door, and was soon thereafter pushed back into her house by two other
men, wearing balaclavas.
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- After she had told them she did not have a firearm and
money the man instructed her to drive them around in her car, said Nkosi.
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- They travelled to Bethal and later to Kriel, where they
stopped on a gravel road.
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- Nkosi also said a Mercedes Benz stopped behind the woman's
car and another man came out with a knife and threatened to cut her throat.
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- Then one of the attackers said they would give her AIDS
and injected her with something, Nkosi said. The four men drove off in
the Mercedes Benz, Nkosi also said.
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- He added the woman had undergone an HIV test and was
waiting for results.
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- http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1479388,00.html
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- Woman Shot Dead Over Cell Phone
- AfricanCrisis.Org
News24.com
2-5-4
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- (Thieves kill in this country with impunity. - Jan)
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- Johannesburg - A 28-year-old woman was shot dead in a
scuffle with a thief who was trying to steal her cellphone, North Rand
police spokesperson Captain Sophie Mayisela said on Thursday.
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- The woman and her friend were walking in Phomolong, an
extension of Ivory Park, on Wednesday when they a man approached them.
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- Mayisela said the man allegedly took out a firearm and
ordered one of the women to hand over her cellphone.
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- In a scuffle, the cellphone fell on the ground. When
the woman bent to pick it up, the man shot her in the head and ran away.
She died on the spot.
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- Her friend, who was unharmed, reported the matter to
the police. They are still looking for the man.
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- http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1479278,00.html
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