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By Cornelia Le Roux

Digital Deputy News Editor


Cash-in-transit bombing rocks Durban shopping centre [VIDEOS]

Ringside seats: Footage of a cash-in-transit bombing and robbery on Monday evening at a shopping centre in Shallcross has surfaced.


The Durban police forensic team is currently on the scene of a cash-in-transit (CIT) heist that took place near Wingen Shopping Centre in Shallcross at about 6.30pm on Monday evening.

The bombing of the money truck rocked Olympia Street, sending people reportedly running for cover into the shopping centre as chaos broke out.

Security guards injured in Durban cash-in-transit heist

ALS Paramedics director Garrith Jamieson told The Citizen that two security guards have sustained moderate injuries and have been taken to the hospital.

According to him, the cash-in-transit robbers were armed and are believed to have fled the scene in a white Toyota Hilux.

No further details are available at this time. This is a developing story.

WATCH: CIT heist in Shallcross

Several videos have surfaced online of the bombing and robbery:

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