A gang of 18 robbers attempting to rob armoured vans carrying cash for banks in Makhado, North Limpopo have been gunned to death, Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe confirmed to press men.
National police commissioner General Fannie Masemola, his deputy, and head of elite police unit – The Hawks, Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya have arrived the crime scene.
Few weeks ago, Mpumalanga Police arrested a teacher as member of four people linked to a brazen cash-in-transit heist where R8,000 in coins were stolen.
The shoot-out came following a tragic week in South Africa, in which at least 76 people died in a fire at an apartment complex overran by homeless people in Johannesburg on Thursday