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A Nelson Mandela Bay traffic officer has been gunned down in an early morning hit.
Police Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the officer was with a female passenger when a gunman opened fire on his official vehicle.
She says after the shots were fired the victim's car veered off the road and through a fence.
Naidu says the female passenger was shot in the arm and taken to hospital.
The slain officer is said to be 62-years-old.
A case of murder and attempted murder is under investigation.
Pictures supplied by ATLAS Security show paramedics trying in vain to resuscitate the victim.
