FIERY DEATH FOR SIX IN CAR CRASH NEAR SASOLBURG
Three South African National Defence Force members and three armed robbers died when their cars collided near Sasolburg on Sunday night, Free State police said on Monday.
Police spokeswoman Captain Rosa Benade said both vehicles caught fire with the occupants still trapped inside, and burned out.
Benade said 12 armed men robbed a cafe near Kragbron of about R12 000 after holding up the owner, an assistant and a cleaner.
The robbers fled the scene in three different vehicles.
Benade said three robbers in a Golf tried to pass another vehicle near the Koppies - Sasolburg intersection but collided head-on with an oncoming Citi Golf driven by the SANDF members.
Police found two handguns in the vehicle driven by the robbers.
Benade said the names of the SANDF members could not be released as the SANDF was in the process of informing the next-of-kin.
Police were still looking for the other suspects in the robbery.
Anyone with information was asked to phone Captain Chief Skosana at 083-363-8865.
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