South Africa: Police Destroy Over 14 000 Illegal Firearms

Pretoria — As part of cleaning up the streets and making communities safer in line with the National Development Plan, police destroyed 14 382 firearms on Thursday.

The exercise was carried out as an event to commemorate the United Nations (UN) Firearms Destruction Day, which is commemorated on the 9th of July annually.

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