Farmer beaten and almost shot during a robbery in Viljoenskroon

SA Rural Security

Farmer beaten and almost shot during a robbery in Viljoenskroon
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In the early hours this morning, at a farm in Ramdam, in the Fezile Dabi District, Moqhaka Municipality, Viljoenskroon, Free State a farmer was targeted by criminals and threatened to be shot.

Six suspects confronted a defenseless farmer, attacked him, and tied him up. The suspects threatened to stab him. The suspects took a shotgun and pointed it at the farmer threatening to shoot him in the head. The perpetrators fled with the farmer’s pickup truck.

The police responded to the incident and a shotgun was picked up on the Kroonstad road.

The farmer is traumatized by the event.

The police are investigating the incident.

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