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Robbers terrorise shoppers while brave girl, 11, remains calm and prays

Gang targets supermarket and liquor store

“I KNEW that God would keep me safe, because that is what my parents always told me. I was still scared. But, I just sat quietly and closed my eyes. When I heard the loud bangs, I held my hands tightly together and prayed that nobody died.”

Those were the words of 11-year-old Samaria Tamieka Andrew as she recalled how she, her uncle, Samuel Andrew, and his friend, Trevor Pillay, walked into an armed robbery in progress at a supermarket in Orient Hills, Isipingo, last Tuesday.

They had gone to the supermarket to buy bread and sweets.

At the time, an armed gang had simultaneously targeted the supermarket and a liquor store at the Orient Mall.

Pillay and other

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