Pretoria police caught 10 bank robbers in the act during a break-in at the Lyttelton branch of Absa in the early hours of Monday morning.

Spokesperson Inspector Lucas Sithole said the police's information-gathering unit and a special task force had been keeping watch on the bank.

The 10 robbers had come equipped with jackhammers, a grinder, five boxes of blades, an extension cord and crowbars.

"A security guard, who had been bound by his feet and hands and put in the boot of a stolen car, knocked on the boot to alert police," said Sithole.

The security guard had been kidnapped earlier in the evening, he said.
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