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Police are investigating the circumstances under which a firearm was allegedly stolen from a police vehicle in Mossel Bay.

A former FNB employee, accused of stealing more than R400 000 from an elderly client, took the stand in the Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes Court on Monday

Police in Port Elizabeth have opened up a case of murder and inquest after a murder-suicide in Newton Park on Sunday.

Rescue personnel have been scrambled to the scene of a passenger bus accident in the rural Eastern Cape which has claimed the lives of at least 21 people.

Mossel Bay police have launched a manhunt for five suspects who killed an 18-year-old woman for R150.

Ten people have been killed in a bus accident on the road between Butterworth and Centane. Eastern Cape Health Department Sizwe Kupelo says the 65 seater passenger bus plunged several metres off the road earlier on Monday morning.

Police in Mthatha have arrested a 28-year-old man who allegedly robbed a couple from Europe at a mall in the CBD on Sunday.

Three Eastern Cape traffic officers have been sentenced to an effective combined 15 years imprisonment for corruption. The Hawks confirmed on Sunday that the sentencing of 53-year old Mzuvukile Nkontso, 47-year old Phathekile Dinginto and 32-year old Noluvuko Kondile Vuba, followed a thorough investigation since December 2016, after information was received that Peddie traffic officers were demanding and accepting bribes while performing their duties.

Two men, who were arrested at an accident scene, transporting mandrax tablets on N2 near Jeffreys Bay in April 2017, have been sentenced to an effective eight years imprisonment each in the Humansdorp Magistrate’s Court.