Absa victim of armed robbery again

Early morning shoppers and clients at a commercial bank in Thohoyandou scattered in different directions as armed robbers stormed an armoured security vehicle.

The vehicle was delivering cash at the Absa Mutsindo branch on Monday morning at around 09:00. Even the heavy rain could not stop onlookers who arrived at the scene in their numbers within minutes. The robbery is the second at the same place in just a few months.

According to Thohoyandou police spokesperson Major Mashudu Malelo, the robbers arrived in two vehicles, a white Mercedes Benz Compressor and a silver grey BMW. "The unknown number of suspects surprised the G4 security guards at the bank, who were busy offloading cash. The suspects grabbed an unknown amount of cash and sped away in the two vehicles," said Malelo.

He said no arrests had been made so far and the suspects were not known. "This is the second incident within a few months and we cannot rule out the possibility of a robbery syndicate operating in the area,” he added.

The police have opened a cash-in-transit robbery case and investigations are continuing.

In another robbery late last year at the same bank, a group of men robbed the same security company of an undisclosed amount of money. During a shoot-out between the robbers and security guards, one robber was shot dead at the scene, while a security guard was wounded.

Date:14 March 2014

By: Elmon Tshikhudo

Elmon Tshikhudo started off as a photographer. He developed an interest in writing and started submitting articles to local as well as national publications. He became part of the Limpopo Mirror family in 2005 and was a permanent part of the news team until 2019.

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