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Police are hunting for the suspects who shot and killed two men in separate incidents in Gqeberha on Monday.

The Hawks in the Eastern Cape have confirmed the abduction of a Chinese national from a business in Gqeberha.

A passenger on an Intercape bus was wounded when three buses came under attack in separate incidents in the Eastern Cape on Sunday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will visit the Eastern Cape on Tuesday to assess the aftermath of recent floods that have claimed several lives and caused damage to private and public infrastructure.

The 24-year-old Hilton Wicks who was kidnapped in Nqanqarhu (formerly Maclear) on Friday has been safely dropped off at Kei Bridge in the early hours of the day. News of Wicks' disappearance came just an hour after the Gqeberha Biokineticist, Riana Pretorius was released from her captors on Friday.

Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the 43-year-old officer was on her way to work on Sunday morning when her ex-boyfriend ambushed her on the stairs outside her living quarters.

Police in Jeffreys Bay have opened an inquest docket following a suicide at the main beach.

Police have recovered the bodies of two people who had been swept away in recent floods that caused havoc in the OR Tambo District Municipality. They were identified as 53-year-old Fumanekile Mantshubaqa and 24-year-old Asenathi Mkawusi.

Riana Pretorius was dramatically kidnapped in front of her workplace on Pickering Street in Newton Park last Thursday. The news of her abduction spread like wildfire on all social media platforms and quick action from the police led to the arrest of one suspect.