SIX HELD AFTER FOILED KZN CASH HEIST
Six men were arrested in a joint operation involving the South African National Defence Force, a private security company and police after an attempted cash-in-transit heist in the Drakensberg, police said on Wednesday.
Superintendent Zandra Hechter said that six men in two vehicles - an Isuzu bakkie and a Ford Laser - fired shots and rammed the cash-in-transit van which was on the way to a bank on Tuesday.
The driver of Stealth Security, who had collected money from the Drakensberg Gardens Hotel, alerted his employers by radio as he was rammed.
Hechter said Himeville police and the private security firm Berg Protection Services responded.
In the ensuing shootout a suspect fled in the bakkie, which was later abandoned. The other five fled in the Ford Laser.
In follow-up operations together with SANDF units in the area all six were arrested at various locations in the Underberg area.
Nobody was injured in the shootout and no cash taken.
The six were expected to appear in court soon on charges of attempted murder and attempted robbery, she said.
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21 Juin 2006 à 17:10 dans
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