BURNT OUT: This truck was torched during a protest on the N2 near
Colchester on Wednesday night
A TRUCK was torched and two vehicles stoned during a protest that saw the N2 near Colchester shut down on Wednesday night.
Norman Howley, 54, was en route to East London to deliver the Daily Dispatch newspaper when his truck was petrolbombed at 9.30pm.
Chaos erupted when residents blocked off the national route with burning tyres after Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Danny Jordaan failed to turn up for a scheduled outreach meeting.
“A group of people blocked the road and they came to my truck,” Howley said.
“They ordered me to get out . . . I jumped out and ran away.
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