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A 34-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Limpopo security guard earlier this month.
The security guard was killed during a cash-in-transit heist in Burgersfort on 1 April.
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The Hawks arrested the man on Thursday, said police spokesperson Captain Matimba Maluleke. On 1 April 2021, a security guard who had just collected money from the shop in Burgersfort was on his way to the company vehicle when he was allegedly confronted by three armed men, who shot him dead and made off with over R400 000, Maluleke said.
A case of murder and armed robbery was opened and referred to the Hawks Serious Organised Crime Investigation unit for investigation.
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34-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Limpopo
security guard earlier this month.
The
security guard was killed during a cash-in-transit heist in Burgersfort on 1
April.
The Hawks
arrested the man on Thursday, said police spokesperson Captain Matimba
Maluleke. On 1
April 2021, a security guard who had just collected money from the shop in
Burgersfort was on his way to the company vehicle when he was allegedly confronted
by three armed men, who shot him dead and made off with over R400 000,
Maluleke said.
A case of
murder and armed robbery was opened and referred to the Hawks Serious
Cash-in-transit robbery: Police officer wounded as three suspects arrested
A police sergeant and a security guard were wounded in a cash-in-transit robbery and high-speed chase in Cape Town on Thursday.
A member of the South African Police Service (SAPS) and a security guard were wounded during a brazen cash-in-transit (CIT) heist in Macassar, Cape Town on Wednesday, 29 April. The suspects fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash and headed towards Khayamandi in Stellenbosch where police eventually apprehended them.
MULTIPLE CRIME SCENES AS CIT GANG FLEES TO STELLENBOSCH
Police said a group of armed men attacked a cash-in-transit vehicle in an attempt to get to the money it was carrying and a security guard was wounded during the initial incident, which was captured on video.