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Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>\u201cArmed or not, nothing could have saved me if the gunmen intended to shoot me together with the unknown men who were shot dead while aboard my car.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

This was said by the taxi man whose clients were shot dead while parked at the Vegas City Guest House in Ezulwini on Monday night. The taxi man said the only thing one could have done was to let anything happen as he had nowhere to hide while his clients were shot at a very close range. \u201cThe Bible says at times, God makes us walk on top of scorpions. I understand that it is not always that God protects you from bad situations. At times God allows things to happen for a reason. However, I thank God that the gunmen did not consider concealing evidence by killing me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Disturbed <\/b><\/p>\n

He said he was disturbed by people who sympathised with him while he tried to nurse the situation. On another note, the taxi man revealed during the interview that the man who had initially hired him from The Gables to fetch his friends, who were eventually shot dead, paid him more than he had charged. He stated that the client paid him E300 and an extra E100 just after they had arrived at the guest house where the duo\u2019s lives were ended by the gunmen who were driving in a red Polo Vivo. Chief Police Information and Communications Officer Senior Superintendent Phindile Vilakati said the victims had not yet been identified as investigations were ongoing.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Eswatini. \u201cArmed or not, nothing could have saved me if the gunmen intended to shoot me together with the unknown men who were shot dead while aboard my car.\u201d This was said by the taxi man whose clients were shot dead while parked at the Vegas City Guest House in Ezulwini on Monday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-40464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"\nTAXI MAN SPEAKS AFTER 2 SA MEN KILLED NEAR GUEST HOUSE - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cArmed or not, nothing could have saved me if the gunmen intended to shoot me together with the unknown men who were ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/taxi-man-speaks-after-2-sa-men-killed-near-guest-house\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TAXI MAN SPEAKS AFTER 2 SA MEN KILLED NEAR GUEST HOUSE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cArmed or not, nothing could have saved me if the gunmen intended to shoot me together with the unknown men who were ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/taxi-man-speaks-after-2-sa-men-killed-near-guest-house\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eswatini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-21T17:09:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/12\/sm_1703165170.076475.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"976\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"549\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/taxi-man-speaks-after-2-sa-men-killed-near-guest-house#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/taxi-man-speaks-after-2-sa-men-killed-near-guest-house\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"TAXI MAN SPEAKS AFTER 2 SA MEN KILLED NEAR GUEST HOUSE\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-12-21T17:09:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/taxi-man-speaks-after-2-sa-men-killed-near-guest-house\"},\"wordCount\":278,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/taxi-man-speaks-after-2-sa-men-killed-near-guest-house#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/12\/sm_1703165170.076475.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eswatini\",\"Eswatini\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/taxi-man-speaks-after-2-sa-men-killed-near-guest-house#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/taxi-man-speaks-after-2-sa-men-killed-near-guest-house\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/taxi-man-speaks-after-2-sa-men-killed-near-guest-house\",\"name\":\"TAXI MAN SPEAKS AFTER 2 SA MEN KILLED NEAR GUEST HOUSE - 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