THE thugs thought the house would be an easy target because there were only women living there, but they made a terrible mistake!
When the four women heard them breaking in through the roof, they stood their ground and fought for their belongings.
One of them, aged 24, told Daily Sun it was at about 1am yesterday morning when they were woken by a noise of the roof being broken at their house in Bester near KwaMashu, north of Durban.
“We have a two-roomed house. They broke the roof of the dining room and jumped inside the house,” she said.
“But by then, my mother was already there, waiting for them.”
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She said one of the thugs saw her mother in the dark and hit her with a gun.
“My mother fought with them, asking them what they wanted in the house. Me and my sisters joined her in fighting them off,” said the daughter.
She said one of them managed to escape.
“We switched on the lights and asked the other thug who his friend was. He told us the name and told us they wanted a speaker that was in our house,” she said.
“We don’t know if it was a real gun. Some residents said it was real but it didn’t have bullets.
“I think they wanted to scare us with it because they know we are women and there’s no man in the house.”
She said they called the cops and the man was arrested.
KZN cop spokeswoman Colonel Thembeka Mbele confirmed that two men allegedly entered the house in Bester through the roof.
“They allegedly fell onto the furniture and the family woke up,” she said.
“One suspect was caught and the other managed to flee on foot with a firearm in his hand.”
She said the caught suspect was allegedly assaulted by residents.
Ntuzuma police were alerted and the suspected taken to hospital for medical attention.
He is under police guard.
“A case of housebreaking and theft was opened at Ntuzuma Police Station for investigation. The suspect will appear in court soon,” said Mbele.