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A cash transit van crashed into a residential home in Welgelegen, Cape Town, after an injured security guard attempted to flee an ambush.
- Gunmen ambushed a cash transit team in a pre-dawn raid on a small shopping center.
- Sources said the guards were overwhelmed by a hail of bullets.
- The guard who was driving the van died after trying to flee, but crashed into a nearby house.
A security guard was killed in a hail of gunfire before dawn at a Cape Town shopping mall on Thursday.
The Western Cape Police Commissioner’s office said a manhunt was underway for gunmen who opened fire on a vehicle in transit at a retail center in Welgelegen, in the northern suburbs of Cape Town.
The ambush took place around 06:45. The security guard had been waiting for his colleagues to fetch cash from a downtown store. The driver was shot and apparently tried to escape.
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Instead, it crashed into the garage of a nearby residential home. The cash transit van stopped after crashing deeply into the home’s double garage.
A cash transit van crashed into a residential home in Welgelegen, Cape Town, after an injured security guard attempted to flee an ambush.
A cash transit van crashed into a residential home in Welgelegen, Cape Town, after an injured security guard attempted to flee an ambush.
It was assumed that he had suffered many gunshot wounds and died from the wounds.
Back at the mall, another guard was shot and wounded at the store entrance.
The killers fled in two vehicles with a “substantial amount of cash”: a black Opel Corsa, stolen in Khayelitsha in June, and a white VW Golf GTI.
Police spokeswoman Novela Potelwa said police were investigating cases of murder, attempted murder and commercial theft.
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