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This year alone a total of 35
carriages in eight incidents have either been lost or damaged as a result of
fire or arson.
Over the weekend 19 train carriages
were torched at the Salt River depot.
The chamber's President Janine
Myburgh said a suspect arrested after 19 train coaches were torched at a
Metrorail depot at the weekend is expected to appear in court this week.
Myburgh said they believe this was a
planned act.
Meanwhile police have arrested one
suspect for the incident over the weekend.
However Myburgh says the immediate
challenge was for the crime intelligence services to pin point the real
culprits.
Meanwhile the Passenger Rail Agency
of South Africa said over the past three years it has lost more than R380
million to vandalism and arson attacks in the province.
Myburgh said the vital question we
must now ask is about the motive for the attack and who or what organisations
are behind it.
Myburgh said at this stage what we
need is information and I appeal to anybody who might know something to contact
the police, the metro police, or even the chamber if they would like to remain
anonymous.
“We will pass the information on to
the authorities and monitor progress Myburgh added.
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