South Africa: IPID Probes Case of Child Killed in Hit-and-Run

25 January 2022

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) is probing the death of a 15-year-old girl in a hit-and-run accident in Kwa thema in Springs, Gauteng, on 13 January. Witnesses say the vehicle was a police car.

Blessing Chibaya had fetched her six-year-old sister from Zamani Primary School and was returning to her mother's home with the child on her back. Witnesses who live opposite Vlakfontein Road say the two sisters were safe on the side of the road when suddenly a police van ran off the road hitting the two children before skidding away. The younger sister was rushed to hospital and has been discharged.

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