A SHOOTOUT BETWEEN POLICE AND SUSPECTS IN A SUPERMARKET ROBBERY LEFT 12 PEOPLE DEAD SUNDAY, INCLUDING FOUR POLICE OFFICERS, AP REPORTED. TWO OFFICERS AND AN UNDISCLOSED NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE WERE INJURED, POLICE SAID. THEY SAID THE GUN BATTLE ERUPTED WHEN POLICE TRAILED PEOPLE SUSPECTED OF ROBBING A SUBURBAN JOHANNESBURG SUPERMARKET TO A HOUSE IN ANOTHER SUBURB. ONE SUSPECT SURRENDERED AT THE SUPERMARKET AND 14 OTHERS SURRENDERED TO POLICE AT THE HOUSE. SAFETY AND SECURITY MINISTER CHARLES NQAKULA TOLD THE SOUTH AFRICAN BROADCAST CORP. LATER SUNDAY THAT ANYONE WHO POINTS A GUN AT A POLICE OFFICER WILL BE KILLED. «THERE ARE SOME CRIMINALS IN SOUTH AFRICA WHO ARE ARMED, AND ARE PREPARED TO KILL PEOPLE ... . ANYONE WHO POINTS A FIREARM AT POLICE WILL BE KILLED BY POLICE OFFICERS,» HE SAID.
