A fleeing thief and a police officer who tried to apprehend him were killed in a firefight in Dong Nai province yesterday, while a man had been shot and wounded earlier by the thief.
A fleeing thief and a police officer who tried to apprehend him were killed in a firefight in Dong Nai province yesterday, while a man had been shot and wounded earlier by the thief.
At around 4 pm police officers in Cam My district’s Xuan Duong commune chased after two young men who had shot a local resident and stolen his motorbike.
One of them suddenly turned around and shot at the policemen, hitting officer Ho Thong in the arm.
When they reached the Cam My roundabout, the thieves abandoned their vehicles and ran into a garden, shooting and injuring its owner Ly and taking him hostage.
When an officer, Le Thanh Tam, approached them, they shot and killed him.
Officers soon surrounded the garden and the thieves opened fire on them.
After exchanging shots for a while, the police killed one of them and seized a K59 gun from him.
He was later identified as Tran Quoc Tuan, 33, of Bien Hoa.
But the other escaped.
A police dog was brought and it sniffed out the man from under a sewer. The police used a bullhorn to call him out to surrender but he refused to come out.
At 7 pm, after officers lobbed tear gas canisters, the man came out and was arrested. He has been identified as Bui Thanh Trung, 32, also of Bien Hoa.
The man who was shot for his motorbike was Pham Thai Tuong, 44, who is being treated at the Cam My general hospital.
“I was riding near the Xuan Duong cemetery when two men on a motorbike came up to me and forced me to stop. One of them aimed a gun at my head and asked me to get off my vehicle. When I refused, the other man said, ‘Shoot him dead’.”, said Tuong.
He said he was very lucky that the bullet just creased his head and an eyelid.
(Source: Tuoitrenews)
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| After exchanging shots for a while, the police killed one of robbers |
One of them suddenly turned around and shot at the policemen, hitting officer Ho Thong in the arm.
When they reached the Cam My roundabout, the thieves abandoned their vehicles and ran into a garden, shooting and injuring its owner Ly and taking him hostage.
When an officer, Le Thanh Tam, approached them, they shot and killed him.
Officers soon surrounded the garden and the thieves opened fire on them.
After exchanging shots for a while, the police killed one of them and seized a K59 gun from him.
He was later identified as Tran Quoc Tuan, 33, of Bien Hoa.
But the other escaped.
A police dog was brought and it sniffed out the man from under a sewer. The police used a bullhorn to call him out to surrender but he refused to come out.
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| Pollice used bullhorn to call robber out to surrender |
The man who was shot for his motorbike was Pham Thai Tuong, 44, who is being treated at the Cam My general hospital.
“I was riding near the Xuan Duong cemetery when two men on a motorbike came up to me and forced me to stop. One of them aimed a gun at my head and asked me to get off my vehicle. When I refused, the other man said, ‘Shoot him dead’.”, said Tuong.
He said he was very lucky that the bullet just creased his head and an eyelid.
(Source: Tuoitrenews)
