Durban - Two businesses in and around Durban fell victim to cash-in-transit robbers on Tuesday.
Video footage of the first heist, at a Verulam petrol station, was posted on Reaction Unit South Africa’s Facebook page.
It shows a gang of three pull up in a Chevrolet Aveo and wait for the cash van to arrive.
It enters the garage at about 2.45pm.
A security guard then enters the petrol station with a bag to collect the cash.
Eleven minutes later, the security guard goes out of the station and opens the vehicle which was parked about a metre from the door of the station.
As he opens the door and is about to enter the vehicle, a gunman runs towards him and points a firearm at him.
The gunman not only snatches the bag away from the guard, but also takes the guard’s gun.
He then calmly walks away.
Three petrol attendants next to the guard watch the events unfold.
It took about eight seconds to take the gun and money from the guard.
Police spokesman, Major Thulani Zwane, said that a case of business robbery had been opened, and no arrests made.
Later in the evening, Durban’s Flying Squad and members of SA CAN raced to Pinetown where an estimated R890 000 was taken when a gang held up a G4S cash van at Premier Foods, in Wareing Road.
It is understood the gunmen used AK-47s and 9mm pistols. A guard’s firearm was taken.
Police sources said the driver of the cash van was shot in the arm, but official police spokespeople could not confirm this.
Zwane said no arrests had been made in this case either.
Pinetown police were investigating.
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