Durban - Staff at a funeral parlour, on Magwaza Maphalala (Gale) street are reeling in shock after being held up at gunpoint by three men on Wednesday.
Ashley Maharaj of Thekwini Funeral Centre said she believed the suspects who all had guns could have done more to them had they not been disturbed.
"Our mortuary is at the back and they call me when a body arrives. We were all laying on the floor when the lady called for me and that shook them and they left," she said.
Maharaj said she was in the customer service area when a man walked in and when he reached her he pulled out a gun from the front of his pants.
"He told me to give him our bags and lay on the floor. The caretaker of the building was working in the toilet and they cocked the gun and put it to the back of his head and also brought to the room where were laying on the floor," said Maharaj.
She said the men took cash from the premises.
"Normally we have families here to see or wash bodies, luckily today it was just us who knows what could have happened if they were".
Meanwhile there was yet another home invasion I'm Durban on Tuesday.
Police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala said around 08:45, the employees at the funeral parlour were performing their duties at a business premises on Gale street when they were accosted by three armed men.
“At gunpoint the suspects took an undisclosed amount of cash and fled the scene on foot”.