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Published on 2024-03-01 02:45:00
The police gave a hard time to the bandits who roam the streets of Toamasina at night. In civilian attire, armed police officers took a rickshaw at two in the morning to lure the robbers who roam Tanambao V at night. Four bandits emerged to wreak havoc with their sabers when the police fired. Gunshots shook the dark night in Tanambao V, Toamasina, on Wednesday night. Yesterday, around 2 a.m., two robbers fell to the bullets of the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR) within the central police station of the city. In this shootout, a long saber and three cell phones that had just been stolen were found in their possession. This deadly intervention occurred as part of an operation to combat banditry, carried out after a wave of insecurity hit several places in the city recently. Robbers armed with sabers and firearms roam many sensitive areas of the city and target in particular people returning late at night or those leaving their homes early in the morning. Rickshaw passengers are their favorite prey. Faced with these repeated attacks, the commander of the UIR Toamasina has devised a plan to counteract this type of criminal activity.
Strategy
To set a trap for the criminals, police officers from this elite unit wore civilian clothing. Posing as ordinary citizens while keeping their concealed automatic weapons, the police officers took a rickshaw. When they took the road that passes in front of the Séraphin school in the Tanambao V neighborhood, four armed bandits, lurking in the vicinity, emerged brandishing sabers and daggers. As they rushed towards the rickshaw to attack the police officers they thought were just passengers, the latter drew their weapons to use them in a flash. In this shootout, two of the assailants fell in the street while their two accomplices managed to disappear into the darkness by disappearing into the dark alleys of the area. Running like madmen at the first shots, they outwitted the police, leaving their two comrades for dead.
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