Manager of Spar store rushes shoppers to safety when blacks with AK47s storm cash-transit van outside his Spar supermarket, Valhalla, Pretoria, South Africa
15 February 2015 - Valhalla shoppers called for help while hiding out in a Spar storeroom while three armed men robbed cash-in-transit guards outside the supermarket on Sunday.
Eyewitness Samantha Hewitt said she was at the entrance of the supermarket when she saw an armed man tussle with the guard. “I saw the robber fighting with the guard for the cash. The robber then fired shots at the guard but he wasn’t injured,” she told Rekord.
Hewitt said the shop was closed immediately and shoppers were rushed upstairs to the storeroom for safety.
Another witness, Natalie Du Plessis, said she was in the shop with her family when she heard gunshots and people yelling.
“I heard an AK47 release four or five shots. The Spar doors slammed and the manager warned us we will be shot and we went to the storeroom and started calling and SMSing for help,” she said.
Du Plessis said shoppers remained locked in the storeroom while the armed men proceeded to rob the liquor store next door.
According to Hewitt and Du Plessis, the armed men fled in the cash-in-transit van.
“They used the cash-in-transit van as their getaway car and even bumped into another car in the parking lot,” Hewitt said.
Police spokesperson Warrant Officer Wanda Olivier said the robbers fled in a white Audi.
“It is alleged the cash-in-transit guards were approached by three armed suspects in the parking area. They fled in a white Audi with an undisclosed amount of money. Nobody was injured,” she said.
Olivier said a case of armed robbery was investigated.
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