We had nothing to do with student's death in TUT campus clash, police insist
The police told watchdog Ipid that when they left, no one was injured — but one student says he saw something different
The police say they had nothing to do with the fatal shooting of a student at the Tshwane University of Technology’s Soshanguve campus‚ the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) reported on Friday. “The police reported that they fired at the ground with R5 rifles and that when they left no one was injured but police vehicles were damaged‚” said Ipid spokesperson Moses Dlamini. The student died after police reported to the institution following an uproar over the SRC elections. “[The police claimed that they] were later informed that a student had been shot and injured. The student died in an ambulance en route to hospital on the R80 road‚” said Dlamini. Ipid has since seized the firearms of the officers who reported to the scene. “The postmortem will be held on August 24 at Ga-Rankuwa mortuary. The docket will be collected today for further investigations‚” Dlamini said. A student who spoke to TimesLIVE said the deceased was shot dead outside the campus. He said chaos...
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