Security personnel are on the lookout for a white Toyota Etios that has been used as a getaway car in a number of robberies in Durban.
This is according to Blue Security community and media liason officer, Andreas Mathios.
Mathios said there is no official confirmation that the vehicle belongs to the same gang but they are keeping an eye out for it.
The suspects in the car have been involved in at least four robbery incidents in Umbilo, Pinetown and New Germany, said Mathios.
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On Sunday, two armed men driving a white Toyota Etios attempted to rob a supermarket in Umbilo.
“Luckily no shots were fired, no injuries sustained and nothing was taken before the suspects fled in their getaway vehicle,” said Mathios.
“In the previous week, staff at two separate supermarkets in Pinetown and Queensburgh were held up and robbed of cash and valuables by suspects using a white Toyota Etios. An armed response officer also narrowly escaped being shot at while in pursuit of hijackers who were using a white Toyota Etios.”
In a another incident on Sunday morning, Mathios said their reaction officer responded to an incident where two security guards, at a business park in New Germany, were held up at gunpoint by four armed men who arrived in a white Toyota Etios.
“The guards were robbed of their cellphones before the gang proceeded to a business premises within the complex. The front door was forced open, the admin office broken into and two computer screens, one plasma TV, two laptops and one computer tower were removed,” he said.
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The suspects then fled in an awaiting getaway vehicle.
In the early hours of Monday morning Blue Security responded to an alarm activation from a premises just over a kilometre away from Sunday’s incident in New Germany.
“On arrival at the business premises the reaction officer found the pedestrian gate, front security gate and door forced open,” Mathios said.
“When additional back-up arrived a further check was done only to find the security guards for two adjoining premises tied up with shoelaces,” he said.
“The victims said that they had been tied up by two suspects wearing balaclavas. The intruders fled with a plasma TV, two stolen cellphones and a gate receiver,” he said.
Pinetown SAPS attended the scene and investigations are continuing.
