Cape Town – A video clip showing a hijacking incident that allegedly took place at a tollgate in South Africa has gone viral on social media.
Police in Limpopo have, however, refuted claims that the hijacking took place at Nyl Plaza or any of the tollgates in the province.
The video was shared on December 23.
In the video, three men alight from a white motor vehicle at a toll gate. They approach another vehicle that stops behind and they commit what looks like a robbery or hijacking.
Police maintained that while the information accompanying the video stated that the incident took place in Nyl plaza, that was not the case.
#sapsLIM Limpopo police refute video clip circulating on social media about hijacking at Nyl Plaza. The incident did not take place at Nyl Plaza toll gate nor at any of the toll gates that are situated in Limpopo Province. MLhttps://t.co/mvDCPf1mvo pic.twitter.com/wVGdVhFfV6
— SA Police Service ?? (@SAPoliceService) December 25, 2022
“Immediately after the clip started circulating on Social Media, the Provincial Commissioner of Police in Limpopo Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe ordered a probe to establish if any such incident took place as purported.
“The incident did not take place at Nyl Plaza toll gate nor at any of the toll gates that are situated in Limpopo Province. Although the video clip seems authentic, it definitely did not take place in the Province. All police stations under whose precincts the four toll gates resort, did not receive any report of carjacking.
“Even if the victim has assumeably not reported the incident, the structural set up shown on the video clip is definitely not Nyl Plaza,” police spokesperson brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said in a statement.
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
