Johannesburg - Police are still probing the circumstances surrounding an alleged hijacking in Fordsburg, Joburg, on Thursday that left three robbers dead outside a store owned by Junaid Dockrat.
Recently, an online publication had to apologise to Junaid and his cousin Farhad Dockrat for publishing claims that they were linked to extremist group al-Qaeda.
Last Thursday afternoon, a Dockrat family member and a friend were almost victims of a hijacking that ultimately left the three men who attacked them dead.
Sajid Essay and Muhammed Ebrahim had parked Essay’s Mercedes opposite Sniper, The Store, a hunting shop in Fordsburg owned by Junaid.
A lawyer for Ebrahim and Essay, Yousha Tayob, said the pair were on their way to the store to visit relatives and friends.
They had just parked when a VW Golf with tinted windows pulled up next to the Mercedes, and a man emerged from the Golf and pointed a firearm at the men.
Tayob said the Mercedes’s occupants shot and killed the first attacker before he was able to shoot.
The other hijackers fired on the pair and a shootout ensued, leaving the attackers lying dead in the middle of the street.
Ebrahim and Essay came out of the incident unharmed.
Provincial police spokeswoman Katlego Mogale has confirmed that an inquest has been opened into the incident, but said there had been no need to lay charges against Ebrahim or Essay.
She said investigators were still waiting for ballistics tests.
The Star