PMB prison break mastermind killed in Scottsville: Police
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Nushera Soodyal
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One of the seven suspects who were killed during Tuesday's shootout with police in Scottsville masterminded the prisoner escape in Pietermaritzburg over month ago.
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Police say he had been among ten remaining escaped inmates yet to be recaptured.
Thirty-one suspects escaped. Some of them have since been re-arrested.
Speaking at a press conference in Durban on Wednesday afternoon, KZN Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, said they'd established the man that was killed yesterday had planned the ambush to break himself out of prison.
"He was heartless basically. He's been with a number of cases and almost all his cases that he is involved with he always finds a way of killing witnesses.