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  • 2021-05-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Service station held hostage as robbers sell fuel – in Zimbabwe, not South Africa (en)
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  • Armed robbers tie up staff, sell fuel for 3 hours, reads the headline of a newspaper clipping posted on Facebook in April 2021. Its photo shows a petrol station with cars parked near the fuel dispensers, captioned : One of the service stations that was robbed. The clipping was posted with the comment : Good evening Africa... This happens only in SA. Did the incident happen in South Africa? We checked. Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road Comments on the post point out that a sign at the entrance to the station – partially covered by a laugh emoji added to the digital image – shows the price of diesel in dollars. In South Africa, fuel is sold in rands, the local currency. A Google reverse image search of the photo led us to several news reports on the incident , with the same headline , on Zimbabwe-based websites. According to the reports , the robbery took place in early March at the Amakhosi Service Station on the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road near Bulawayo , a city in the southwest of Zimbabwe. Sources said two fuel attendants and a security guard at Amakhosi Service Station were confronted by the gang that demanded cash at gunpoint, Zimbabwe’s Chronicle newspaper reported . They then tied them with shoe laces before serving motorists and collecting cash for about three hours. The robbery was in Zimbabwe, not South Africa. (en)
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