POLICE SEIZE TONNES OF MORTARS IN PRETORIA.
Police, following up a 280kg find of spent mortars at a scrap metal dealer in Koedoespoort, Pretoria, seized another two to three tonnes of mortars at a smallholding in the north of the city on Tuesday.
Pretoria police spokesman Captain Piletji Sebola said police, investigating the theft of copper and aluminium cables as part of an ongoing operation with Telkom, visited a scrap metal dealer in Koedoespoort around 9am.
They found 280kg of 60mm, 81mm, and 120mm practice mortars and projectiles.
The person who sold these wares to the dealer claimed to have bought them from SA National Defence Force members, Sebola said.
Police then visited a smallholding in the Pretoria North area, where the rest of the find was made.
All the mortars were confiscated.
Sebola said nobody had been arrested. Police would look into claims that the mortars had been sold by defence force members.
The owner of the smallholding was not a member of the SANDF, he added.
Sebola said the mortars, although used, remained dangerous as they still contained small amounts of explosives.
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11 Février 2003 à 14:11 dans
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