A police inspector was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly shot a minibus taxi driver in a fit of road rage in Dobsonville, Soweto police said.

Inspector Kay Makhubele said the off-duty Moroka police station officer was driving his own vehicle on the Doornkop/Dobsonville Road behind a minibus taxi around 7am.

"It's not clear what sparked the quarrel, but the taxi driver is said to have stopped his vehicle, alighted, went to the officer and assaulted him with a knobkerrie."

The officer allegedly retaliated by firing a shot which hit his 28-year-old attacker in the left thigh. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was in a coma as he had lost a great deal of blood.
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