ICYMI: Police say suspects fired over 100 shots during attempted R21 robbery
Armed robbers who staged a brazen attack in the middle of the day on the busy R21 allegedly fired over a 100 shots at the armoured security vehicle carrying gold.
The Comaro Chronicle identified the dead man as Francois Swart and said that he was declared brain dead at a hospital in Pretoria. It's believed that the robbers, travelling in two VW Golfs, were after the gold that the men had just picked up from a refinery in Crown Mines and were taking it to another refinery in Germiston.
He said the guards were supposed to off-ramp and get into Germiston but ended up travelling all the way on the N12, running away from the robbers, before ending up on the R21."As they shot the security vehicle, it hit other two cars. The robbers were just shooting along the way and we don't know if anyone else was hit by a stray bullet because we never got any reports of that.
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