The soldier who confessed to being an accomplice of gunmen who launched an early morning attack on a GT&T cell site on the Linden/ Soesdyke Highway on Sunday, before engaging in a shootout with police is to make a court appearance today.
Police in the meantime are looking for the other suspects.
According to reports around 03:10 hours three men armed with firearms held up and robbed two males and a female security guard at the GT&T location at Hauraruni. The men held up the security guards and after tying them up took away 23 five-gallon containers of diesel, $15,000 and a cell phone and escaped.
Later, around 04:40 hrs, ranks of a mobile patrol at Madewini, observed what at the time, was suspected to be fuel leaking from the trunk of motor car PFF 1757. The car, police reported, was travelling in front of the patrol and was carrying three men.
The police continued following the vehicle, which subsequently suddenly stopped. One of the men then exited and opened fire with a handgun on the police. Police immediately took cover and returned fire but the men managed to escape.
A search was subsequently conducted on the abandoned car and 23 plastic containers containing dieseline, a 12-gauge shotgun with four cartridges, a pair of gloves and a camouflage hat and poncho were found.
The army corporal later went to the Madewini Police Outpost and reported the car used in the incident as having been stolen.
He was however arrested and under questioning confessed to having been the driver of the said car.
