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Eastern Cape police have arrested two suspects and confiscated abalone to the value of R190 000 near Maletswai during an intelligence-driven operation.

A trial awaiting prisoner who escaped from the East London Magistrates court last month has been re-arrested.

Police in Port St Johns are investigating a triple murder and three attempted murders after a shooting incident at the Qhubuswayo locality on Friday night.

A seventh suspect, who was allegedly involved in the murder of a police Warrant Officer of Centane in the Eastern Cape has been arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit murder, killing of a police officer, and the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Police are interviewing four people of interest in connection to two mass shooting incidents in Kwanobuhle in Kariega in which eight people were killed and a ninth person wounded.

Uitenhage Provincial Hospital and Dora Nginza Hospital were among the recipients of beds and bedside lockers that were originally purchased for the Field Hospital.

Eastern Cape Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nomthetheleli Mene has implemented the  72-hour activation plan to arrest those responsible for killing eight people and wounding another person in two shooting incidents in Kwanobuhle, in Kariega.

Gqeberha police are hunting for the gunmen who shot and killed a teenage girl. Police spokesperson, Colonel Priscilla Naidu, says the body of 13-year-old Chandre' Heyns was found in a veld in the Marikana informal settlement.

Gqeberha police are investigating a case of murder following a shooting in Helenvale on Wednesday in which a teenager was killed.