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“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