Man Accused Of Faking Hijacking Assaulted/Stabbed: Canehaven - KZN

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A 42 year old man accused of faking a hijacking was severally assaulted and stabbed by his employer in Canehaven - KZN today (Saturday). 

Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were called out to Shastri Park - KZN at approximately 10:34. On arrival, Reaction Officers met with the injured male. He explained that he was employed as a driver for an E-Hailing service provider. 

Yesterday afternoon (Friday), he travelled to Umgeni Road in Durban - KZN where he was allegedly hijacked for his employers silver Toyota Etios and robbed of his Huawei cellphone. 

The man further stated that he spent the night under a bridge with drug users and managed to seek assistance from a member of the public this morning. 

He was transported back to his employer’s residence in Canehaven - KZN. His employer & a second individual assaulted him with a wheel spanner and accused him of fabricating the incident. 

They believed that he pawned the vehicle to a drug dealer in exchange for narcotics. He was also stabbed during the assault. The injured male thereafter returned to his father’s home in Shastri Park - KZN. 

He was transported privately to a medical facility and would thereafter register a criminal case against his attackers.