'The suspects stole an undisclosed amount of cash and fled on the R44.'
Cash-in-transit robbers hijacked this Toyota Fortuner in their bid to flee with cash in the Western Cape on Monday.Brazen gunmen ambushed a cash-in-transit vehicle and then hijacked two vehicles – one of them a police van - in a bid to escape with the stolen cash after a shoot-out.
"The suspects stole an undisclosed amount of cash and fled on the R44 but as they reached Cloetesville they were cornered by members of the SAPS who were responding to the robbery," said Naidoo. Naidoo added that there would be an investigation to establish how the suspects managed to get the keys to the police van.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident, two suspects from Thabong were arrested after an attempted cash-in-transit heist at Virginia in the Free State on Sunday.
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