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Assault rifles were recovered following a shoot-out in Stellenbosch with cash-in-transit robbers. Image: Sourced
A cash-in-transit heist which started in Macassar, Cape Town, on Thursday ended in a shoot-out with the police in Stellenbosch.
Reports emerged at midday of a heist at the Macassar shopping centre involving several robbers armed with assault rifles.
Videos, purportedly depicting the heist, showed men unloading bags from an armoured cash-in-transit van while others pointed firearms at the vehicle’s occupants.
The shopping centre is adjacent to the Macassar police station.
Videos making the rounds of the cash-in-transit heist in Macassar, Cape Town earlier today. Robbers armed with assault rifles were reportedly arrested in Stellenbosch after a police chase. Story to follow @TimesLIVEpic.twitter.com/WrcNRtetPF Aron Hyman (@aron hyman) April 29, 2021
Image: Sourced
A cash-in-transit heist which started in Macassar, Cape Town, on Thursday ended in a shoot-out with the police in Stellenbosch.
Reports emerged at midday of a heist at the Macassar shopping centre involving several robbers armed with assault rifles.
Videos, purportedly depicting the heist, showed men unloading bags from an armoured cash-in-transit van while others pointed firearms at the vehicle’s occupants.
The shopping centre is adjacent to the Macassar police station.
Videos making the rounds of the cash-in-transit heist in Macassar, Cape Town earlier today. Robbers armed with assault rifles were reportedly arrested in Stellenbosch after a police chase. Story to follow @TimesLIVEpic.twitter.com/WrcNRtetPF Aron Hyman (@aron hyman) April 29, 2021
The suspects were tracked down to Kayamandi taxi rank in Stellenbosch.
Three suspects were arrested and five firearms, including three AK-47 rifles were seized by police.
A policeman and a security guard were wounded in a foiled cash-in-transit heist, which saw authorities chase the gang from the scene in Macassar and eventually arrest three would-be robbers in Stellenbosch.
National police spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo said armed men attacked a cash van in Macassar on Thursday, wounding a security guard in the attempted robbery. Police reinforcements comprising of local police, tactical response team and air support responded immediately, foiling the robbery, but a chase and a shootout ensued creating multiple scenes between Macassar, Mfuleni and Stellenbosch in which a 39-year-old [police] sergeant was wounded, he said.
A 39-year-old SAPS sergeant and a security guard were shot and wounded after a group of armed men attacked a cash-in-transit (CIT) vehicle in Macassar on the Cape Flats on Thursday, 29 April.
“Three suspects were arrested and five firearms, including three AK-47 rifles as well as five vehicles, were seized in Stellenbosch. Two of the vehicles were hijacked by the suspects as they fled the Macassar scene,” according to a SAPS statement after the incident.
According to SAPS spokesperson Vish Naidoo, the SAPS does not believe that the three suspects arrested were the only ones involved.
Reinforcements consisting of local police, tactical response teams and air support responded immediately, quickly foiling the robbery and tracking the suspects to a Kayamandi taxi rank in Stellenbosch, the statement read.