Two men who held a mother, her two small children and their pregnant domestic worker at gunpoint have been arrested.

One of the men was caught close to the family’s Illiondale house yesterday, July 10, while the other two were arrested in Kempton Park after a car chase with security officers and members of the SAPS.

According to the operations director for Mamba Strike Force, Mr Kevin Norman, members of the Special Ops unit were alerted to the robbery when a neighbour heard screams.

“When the unit arrived on the scene, one of the two men outside the property fired three shots at one of our reaction officers,” he said.

The two men fled on foot, hijacking two vehicles in the process of their escape.

Officials at the scene of the arrest in Kempton Park recovered one firearm and also positively identified one of the stolen vehicles the men were using as stolen.