The headless body of a man was discovered after a G4S cash-in-transit van was bombed during a heist on the R28 Main Reef Road in Mohlakeng on Wednesday morning, 6 January.
Colonel Athlenda Mathe, the National Police spokesperson, said police are appealing to members of the public, especially those around the area of Soweto to be on the lookout for a white single-cab Ford Ranger and a silver BMW that were used as getaway vehicles by the robbers who fled the scene of the heist with an undisclosed amount of money.
She explained that at approximately 9am today members of the Bekkersdal Police came across the cash-in-transit heist which was already in progress.
“The members were ferrying awaiting-trial prisoners when they were shot at by a group of men from behind a white Ford Ranger. None of the members or the awaiting-trial prisoners were injured during the ordeal,” she said.
According to Mathe, the police found that the G4S cash van had been bombed. Next to the van they found the decapitated body of a man whom they believe was one of the robbers whose head could have been blown off by the explosives they had used to access the money in the van.
A burnt-out BMW 3 series was also found at the scene, and it has since been established that it was stolen in Kagiso last month.
We are warning members of the public against the tendency to pick up money scattered at cash-in-transit crime scenes, because they implicate themselves. Cash-in-transit heist scenes can often be dangerous particularly when explosives are used in such robberies, as it is possible that not all explosives were detonated during the robbery, and could explode in their presence,” Mathe warned.
