[Update] Pick n Pay robbery – no one arrested yet

A traumatised Ms Lenie Janse van Rensburg said God kept them safe during the Pick n Pay robbery.

“I can’t thank God enough for keeping us safe yesterday.”

Ms Lenie Janse van Rensburg told WITBANK NEWS that she is still traumatised after the armed robbery in Pick n Pay in River Crescent Centre.

“One can not imagine that an ordinary day in a shop can change into chaos within seconds. My grandson, Jannie Van Rensburg, and I were shopping when everyone started running. There was shouting and we tried to run into one of the managers’ offices when we were directed to run to the bakery. Nobody really understood what was happening and above the shouts, we heard ‘armed robbery’. Inside the bakery, I saw an elderly woman, blood was streaming down her face,” Janse van Rensburg said.

The elderly woman was hit over the head by one of the robbers and her gun was taken from her.

“The suspects shot several shots inside the shop and held the manager at gunpoint and demanded that he open the safe,” police spokesperson Captain Eddie Hall said.

Janse van Rensburg said the shop’s staff was amazing as they tried to keep everyone hurdled up and safe.

Someone said the robbers left and it is safe to go outside. But once outside a shoot-out between the police and the robbers broke out as they tried to flee the scene in a grey Mercedes and grey silver Nissan Almera.