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Suspected drug dealer opens fire on police at Ficksburg border post─── 07:48 Tue, 09 Dec 2014
Ficksburg - Ficksburg police are looking for information on an alleged drug dealer who was involved in a high speed chase and shoot-out with police after he sped through the Lesotho border post on Sunday.
Free State police spokesperson, Phumelelo Dlhamini, says the man, driving a Toyota Quantum, failed to stop for routine checks and searches at the Ficksburg port of entry.
He was travelling from Lesotho to South Africa.
Dlhamini says a high speed chase ensued in which the suspect opened fire on police.
He allegedly drove through the gates of a nearby farm and through the Zone 8 location in Ficksburg.
Dlhamini says, at one stage, the man sped towards a police vehicle and bumped into it to evade capture.
He later abandoned the vehicle near the Caledon River, which he crossed to get back into Lesotho.
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