One of South Africa's astir elder constabulary officers has survived an attempted assassination successful Johannesburg, constabulary say.
Deputy transgression quality brag Maj-Gen Feroz Khan was changeable connected Sunday evening arsenic helium was driving location and has since been rushed to infirmary for exigency surgery, section media say.
The shooting comes conscionable days earlier Khan was owed to look earlier a nationalist enquiry acceptable up to analyse criminality successful South Africa's constabulary force.
South African constabulary spokesperson Brig Athlenda Mathe said successful a connection released connected Monday that constabulary were investigating.
"It is premature and irresponsible to speculate connected immoderate imaginable motive oregon to reason that the incidental is linked to his anticipated quality earlier the [inquiry]", she said.
The inquiry, known arsenic the Madlanga commission, was acceptable up aft elder constabulary serviceman Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi alleged past July that organised transgression groups had infiltrated the government.
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