Col Martin van Nieuwenhuizen, Benoni SAPS acting station commander, said two motorists were robbed at gunpoint on Wednesday within an hour of each other.
“The complainant was driving in his car and stopped at the intersection of Snake and New Modder roads,” said Van Nieuwenhuizen.
“A man approached from the veld, jumped into his car and pointed a handgun at him.”
The criminal ordered the victim to drive to a shack in Apex, where he was robbed.
The robbers threw the keys into the veld, which the victim later found and enabled him to drive away.
In another incident on Wednesday, a man’s car broke down at the same intersection.
“Suddenly three males approached him from the veld, pointed a gun at him, took his goods and left him tied up in the veld,” said Van Nieuwenhuizen.
The man escaped unhurt.
On September 24, at 9.30pm, a man was beaten with a brick at the intersection of Main Reef and Main Reef roads.
“Five men suddenly jumped out from the veld and pointed a firearm at him,” said the acting station commander.
The man was hit in the face with a brick.
The man was not seriously injured.
Van Nieuwenhuizen said two separate incidents of people being robbed at the Danie Taljaard Park were reported in the last two weeks.
Three gunmen committed the robberies at the park.
