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Original Post Date: 2007-02-28 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
A Pretoria cash-in-transit guard and two motorists were seriously injured in an armed robbery in the industrial area of Samcor Park on Monday.
The Coin Assets in Transit guard, who underwent emergency surgery after being airlifted by police helicopter to Wilgers Hospital, was shot in the leg when a gang of heavily armed robbers ambushed the cash van he was travelling in.
The gunmen, fleeing in several getaway cars, are believed to have made off with hundreds of thousands of rands.
They also attacked motorists who drove past the ambush.
‘I pleaded with him not to shoot’
The guard, who police have declined to name, and his colleague were driving along Vonkprop Road when gunmen driving in a suspected stolen Mercedes Benz rammed the cash van off the road as they approached the Bronkhorstspruit Road intersection.
Afterwards, heavily armed members of the SAPS national intervention unit searched the fields while a police helicopter hovered overhead.
Motorists who witnessed the attack said it had taken place at the “speed of light”.
Shane Phitides, who came across the attack, was hauled from his car by a gunman threatening to shoot him. “I tried to reverse when I saw a man standing over a woman with a gun, but another man began screaming and running at me. I pleaded with him not to shoot.”
Phitides had his life spared when the gunman who pulled him from his car spotted another motorist and ran after him as he reversed.
Another motorist, who asked not to be named, said that everything had been chaotic with people trying to escape by reversing and trying to drive through open fields.
Wilgers Hospital spokesperson Christelle Augustyn said the guard had been treated for a gunshot wound to his thigh and two motorists for injuries and shock.
Pretoria police spokesperson Captain Lucas Sithole said between eight and 12 gunmen were involved. He appealed to anyone with information to contact Silverton Police on (012) 804 8181 or Crime Stop on 08600 10111.
Barry Bateman adds that a Pretoria News photographer was threatened with arrest for trying to take pictures at the scene of a cash heist in Pretoria North on Monday.
A police sergeant not wearing a name badge said if the photographer took pictures he would be interfering with police investigations. Provincial head of police communications Director Govindsamy Mariemuthoo said the police officer had no right to stop the photographer. Police said four armed men made off with an undisclosed amount of cash after robbing three Coin Security guards at the Onderstepoort Biological Products office at 12.40pm. “The suspects escaped in a white Mazda bakkie which was recovered about 3km from the scene.
This article was originally published on page 2 of Pretoria News on February 27, 2007
Source: Independent Online (IOL)
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click…/p>