Police in KwaZulu-Natal are hunting for two men who hijacked a man at a Durban petrol station earlier this week.
The video of the incident was caught on the petrol station's closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras.
In the clip, the motorist is standing at the petrol station window and his blue BMW is parked in a nearby parking bay.
There are other vehicles parked at filling stations and a petrol attendant and another man nearby, they appear to be in conversation.
The suspects approach the man and the first suspect pulls out a firearm and the pair seem to get into a verbal altercation. He then assaults the driver in the face, while his accomplice forces another man, nearby, to the ground.
The first suspect forces the BMW owner to sit down and appears to search the man's pockets for the vehicle keys. He walks off and gets into the driver's side of the BMW and starts the car. The second suspect then approaches the BMW owner and also searches through his pockets before walking to the passenger side of the vehicle and getting inside, and they drive off.
KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, Colonel Robert Netshiunda, confirmed that a case of carjacking is under investigation.
“Montclair police are investigating a case of carjacking following an incident in which a 28-year-old man was reportedly robbed of his vehicle on Tuesday, February 20, on Roland Chapman Drive in Montclair. It is alleged that a man was at the garage when he was accosted by two armed men who, at gunpoint, robbed him of his belongings and drove off,” he said.
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