Bullets fly in Durban North shootout
Customers run for cover after several shots fired outside Acutt Avenue scrap yard less than an hour ago.
ARMED suspects opened fire on a scrap metal worker on Acutt Avenue just minutes ago. It’s alleged the suspects had followed the worker who had withdrawn R6 000 from the Standard Bank in Briardene for change for the business.
The worker had just parked outside North Coast Scrap Metals when he noticed three suspects walking towards him. Without warning the men opened fire on him. The worker, though shaken, miraculously escaped injury, with many of the bullets fired slamming into his work bakkie.
Marshall Security’s Tyron Powell said an alert security guard on the premises who witnessed the scene unfolding returned fire and shot one of the suspects, wounding him in the leg.
“The men made off with the money and escaped on foot. Witnesses remember seeing the suspects jump into an unknown silver vehicle,” he said.
Yulene, a receptionist at North Coast Scrap Metals said she remembers hearing the gunshots and went out to investigate.
“I didn’t realise it was right outside the scrap yard. There was just a whole lot of commotion, customers were running for cover and I saw our security guard firing at the suspects. Thank God no one was injured,” she said.
This is the second incident where people were followed from the bank. Last month an uMhlanga mother and son were followed from a bank in Durban central and were robbed by a brazen gang of armed men on Riverside Road in broad daylight.
The residents who are travelling to India had visited two banks (FNB and al Baraka) enquiring about the dollar-rand exchange rates.
Police were investigating if there was an informant used at either of the banks or if the men were spotted at the banks in question on CCTV footage, pretending to be customers. The men are still on the loose.
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