Police are on the hunt for eight men who carried out a brazen daylight robbery at a clothing store in Mall@Carnival yesterday morning (Wednesday).
Three of the men entered the Exact clothing store at about 9.10am posing as customers.
“One suspect took clothes and went to the fitting room,” said Capt Joep Joubert, spokesperson for the Brakpan Police Station commander.
“He then came out and went to the counter, where he took out a pistol and pointed it at the two shop assistants.
“The other two suspects emptied the cabinet taking 142 phones and 27 tablets.
“The two shop assistants were taken to the back of the shop where their hands were tied with cable ties.”
Joubert told the Herald that some of the other suspects remained outside the shop, talking to the security guards from a neighbouring store in order to distract them.
The robbers, who are in their mid-20s and spoke IsiZulu, fled the scene in a white Toyota Quantum with false number plates.
An employee from a nearby shop realised that something was wrong and raised the alarm.
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