Kwekwe service station robbery tools found at Bula...

Kwekwe service station robbery tools found at Bulawayo house

Zim Now Writer

The implements of crime believed to have been used in the November 27 Rockdox Service Station robbery in which US$600 000 and over R63 400 was stolen, have been recovered by police at a suspect’s house in Luveve, Bulawayo.

The suspect, Shilomu Ndlovu, 45, is on the run.

Police said on their official Twitter handle: “Police in Bulawayo recovered implements of crime at Shilomu Ndlovu’s (45) house in Luveve. The implements comprise an electric cutter, a drilling machine, an electric shocker, six dynamite explosives, four small hand cutters, one combined screwdriver and a spanner.

Heavy duty electric metal cutting machine

“The suspect is on the run and is linked to a robbery case which occurred at a service station along Parson Road, Kwekwe in November 2022. Anyone with information to report at any nearest Police Station.”

One of the suspects in the heist, Mathias Mushure, 43, was arrested last week while hiding at a house in New Lobengula, Bulawayo, leading to the recovery of US$1 937 which had been given to his niece, Mercy Muisa for safekeeping. Police also recovered a Toyota Runx, registration number AEI 6671, which had been bought using money from the robbery.

Mushure indicated that he had received US$7 500 as his share from the loot and the suspects had received inside information about how money was kept at the service station from one of the suspects’ girlfriend named Sharon.

The other suspects in the robbery are still at large and police are appealing for information which can lead to their apprehension.

They have only been identified as Shaky, Dingilizwe Mloyi, Terrence Ngwenya, Mutonga, Ngolile, Mangwiro and Mtunzi.