Johannesburg - Police have recovered hundreds of cellphones that were stolen during a robbery in Mofolo, Soweto, during which a man was shot and wounded.
The hunt is now on for the three robbers, who ambushed employees of a courier company in Mofolo Park on Thursday and later robbed them of the cellphones and SIM cards they were delivering.
On Sunday, police spokesman Major Jack Mngomezulu said the cellphones were later tracked to a house in Orlando.
No one has been arrested.
The men, one a delivery man and the other a security guard, were at a house in Mofolo when they were ambushed.
Police believe the robbers had been tailing them for some time.
Mngomezulu said the delivery man was dropping off a SIM card when the robbers approached and shot the guard waiting in the vehicle.
When the delivery man returned to the van, the robbers pointed a firearm at him.
Mngomezulu said the gunmen bundled the pair into the back of the van and drove to nearby Mofolo Park.
There, they allegedly told the pair to offload the boxes of cellphones from the vehicle.
The robbers then locked them in the back of the van and fled the scene with the loot.
Passers-by eventually unlocked the vehicle to let the security guard and delivery man out.
The wounded man was taken to hospital for treatment.
Some time later, the tracking devices on the stolen cellphones were activated and they were found to be in a house in Orlando, Soweto. Mngomezulu said police found an elderly woman on the property.
She told the officers that her son had brought the cellphones to the house.
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