A police vehicle overturned while in possession of suspects who robbed officers in Umbumbulu on Friday. (Supplied/SAPS)
Two KwaZulu-Natal police officers were on Friday robbed of their service firearms and a state vehicle in the Umbumbulu area, south of Durban.
According to police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker, the officers were on patrol at 11:00 when they stopped a suspicious-looking vehicle.
He said: “As the police officers were searching the [four] men, they were attacked and overpowered. The suspects robbed the police officers of firearms as well as the keys to the police vehicle.”
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