Filling station burgled
Eventually they took an undisclosed amount of cash from the till.
A filling station on the R538 at Mahushu was the latest victim of a business burglary in the Hazyview area this week.
According to a police report, eight men armed with firearms burgled the station in the early hours of Monday morning and got away with cash.
According to Col Mtsholi Bhembe, spokesman for Mpumalanga SAPS, the complainant alleged that he was seated at the waiting room at 01:15 when the men approached him.
They ordered other people present at the time to lie flat on the ground, but escorted the complainant himself to the cashier’s office.
He was instructed to knock on the door, but when the cashier would not open it, the suspects took him back.
After that they started to break the office’s window to get inside.
They also attempted to blast the drop safe with explosives, but their efforts failed.
Eventually they took an undisclosed amount of cash from the till.
The suspeccts then hijacked a vehicle, an Opel Corsa that was in the vicinity. According to some unconfirmed reports, the car belonged to a security company. They then ordered the petrol attendants to fill the vehicle’s tank with fuel. They fled the scene in the Corsa.
Reaction units from Hi-Tech and the SAPS attended to the scene.
Nobody was injured during the burglary.
