Nine suspected cash-in-transit robbers from South Africa and Botswana have been killed in a shootout with the police in Botswana’s capital Gaborone. Botswana’s assistant Police Commissioner, Dipheko Motube says the shootout ensued after 11 heavily armed men attacked and robbed a cash-in-transit van in the city’s main mall on Wednesday. The robbers fled the scene but was followed and confronted by police at a location just outside Gaborone. A 30-year old Motswana woman has been arrested.
Motube says four pistols and an AK 47 were found on the scene. He says most of the money has been recovered. The incident follows only days after eight members of a cash-in-transit gang were killed in a shootout with police in Rosettenville in the south of Johannesburg.
The ten men who were arrested during Monday’s shootout with police in Rosettenville have appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrates Court where the matter was postponed to the 3rd of next month. They are facing charges of murder, attempted murder, possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, possession of explosives and possession of hijacked vehicles and conspiracy to commit a cash-in-transit heist.
Eight suspects were shot dead during an exchange of fire with police. One was a former SANDF soldier. Seven of the suspects are still on the run. Four police officers were wounded in the shootout of whom one died in hospital on Tuesday.
