COP SHOOTS, KILLS HIMSELF AFTER CRASHING POLICE CAR

MBABANE – Police officers are handed guns to protect the nation but an officer turned it on himself and ended his life.

The police officer who shot himself was a driver of one of the police officers, whose promotion was announced during last week’s pass-out parade. He cannot be named for now since his relatives had not been informed of his death, when this article was written.
This officer, who was not in uniform, shot himself once in the head using a service pistol.

Information gathered is that the officer was based at the Royal Eswatini Police Headquarters, in the Traffic Department.
According to some of his colleagues this officer was driving a police car, along Nkoseluhlaza Street, where he had an accident.
The vehicle he was driving damaged the sump during the accident.

He then got out of the vehicle and left it in the middle of the road and walked to where he ended his life. He shot himself near some buildings, which are in the centre of Manzini town, a few metres away from the city council building.

Another police vehicle stopped at the accident scene to assess what had happened, since they could tell that it was a police vehicle.
While these police officers were inspecting the car, they heard the sound of a gunshot in the dark and they heard that it was close to where they were standing.

The officers then went towards where they heard the gunshot and found their colleague dead with the gun next to him. It could not be gathered where the police officer was coming from at around 3am when he had the accident and why he was carrying the service pistol.
The news of his death by after lunch yesterday, spread like a wild fire, as all the police officers from all over the country were talking about it.

Some of them described him to have been a nice person, who did not show signs of going through tough times.
Police Deputy Information and Communications Officer Assistant Superintendent Phindile Vilakati confirmed that a police officer had shot himself.

“We have not informed all his relatives about his passing, so there is nothing much I can say about the death for now. His relatives are not only the people he was related to by blood but even those who were very close friends,” she said.
Vilakati went on to explain that they were still investigating the shooting as they did not have all the facts, also, since there were no witnesses to narrate what had happened.

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