GAUTENG. – A 34-year-old man was attacked with pepper spray and bricks and then bound with rope when five masked men broke into his smallholding home in Bultfontein, Hammanskraal, shortly after midnight on Thursday. The suspects got away with property worth approximately R15 000.
Capt. Johan van Dyk, police spokesperson, told Nuusflits according to police information, the man woke shortly after midnight to sounds outside. Upon investigation, he found five men, one of whom was busy cutting open the security door with a bolt cutter. They entered the house and sprayed the man with pepper spray and struck him on the head with bricks, after which he fell. They bound his hands with rope and placed a balaclava over his head, after which they fled with, among other things, a geyser, electric stove, seven new wooden doors, two new gates, groceries, a small grinding machine, gate keys, a wheelbarrow and electrical wiring from the main switch.
The man heard a vehicle driving away and went to neighbours for help. The suspects remain unknown.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
