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A lone gunman who held 10 people including his 10-year-old niece hostage in Beitbridge, was yesterday shot dead movie-style following a 14 hour stand-off with police.
John Sithole, the gunman, believed to be between 22 and 25 years old, is suspected to hail from Chipinge.
He was also known as Kedha.
Police had been pursuing him for a number of armed robberies in Beitbridge suburbs and along the major highways leading to Harare and Bulawayo. He also committed crimes at the Limpopo River.
He holed up at a house in Beitbridge’s Dulivhadzimu suburb and was eventually killed in a shootout when he tried to dash for freedom.
Kedha allegedly started a diversionary fire in the house and tried to get away using the smokescreen.
Chronicle gathered that he masterminded his operations from Musina in South Africa and would most of the time skip the border via the Limpopo River.
It took a Police Special Tactics Team (PSTT), an arm of the Support Unit, to subdue the heavily armed Kedha. Chronicle
