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Robber shot dead
21/08/2007 23:05  - (SA)  

Durban - A 26-year-old man was shot dead during an attempted robbery in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Tuesday.

Inspector Joey Jeevan said Nkosenye Emmanuel Mbona and three other men attempted to rob a man at the corner of Pietermaritz and Retief streets in the CBD on Monday afternoon.

A security guard who was standing outside Madiba Supermarket intervened and a struggle ensued.

The four men attacked the security guard with their knives and attempted to disarm him. The guard broke free and fired at them, hitting Mbona in the head and neck.

The other three robbers ran away. The security guard and the man who was being robbed also fled from the scene where Mbona lay dead.

The 30-year-old security guard handed himself over at the Pietermaritzburg police station on Tuesday morning. He was subsequently taken in for questioning and has since been released.

"The three remaining men are known and arrests are imminent," Jeevan said.