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WATCH: Tow truck driver murdered after pursuit of CIT heist robbers – reports

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A Vision Tactical intervention unit and ER24 members responded to a cash-in-transit robbery in Maraisburg after receiving reports of a shooting. The cash van was bombed by suspects in three vehicles.

On Friday morning, robbers in three vehicles took over a cash-in-transit (CIT) vehicle on Ontdekkers Road, Johannesburg. This was reported according to preliminary reports.

The alleged robbers murdered a tow truck driver and sped off, Gauteng traffic police confirmed.


The robbery happened at around 8 am.

The two truck drivers tried tracking down the robbers when they sped off so as to alert the police of their whereabouts, said anti-crime Yusuf Abramjee.

Vision Tactical said the suspects were on voyage in three vehicles and set a bomb to a cash van.

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