A street in the Durban CBD was closed off this morning after a shooting incident and car accident during a cash-in-transit robbery, which left one person dead and nine others injured.

According to ALS Paramedics spokesperson Garrith Jamieson, paramedics began receiving multiple calls about the scene just after 09:40 this morning.

“ALS Paramedics received numerous calls of a shooting incident, together with a car accident, in Russell Street, just after Victoria Street in the Durban CBD. On arrival, paramedics found total chaos – it is alleged that there was a cash-in-transit robbery, and the suspects randomly started shooting,” said Jamieson.

One person, believed to be a shop owner, had sustained a gunshot wound to his head and was declared deceased at the scene.

“The cash-in-transit vehicle then sped away, trying to avoid the confrontation, and collided with a taxi before veering off the road and then colliding into multiple vendors on the side of the road. A total of seven vendors and one taxi driver have sustained injuries ranging from moderate to serious and have been stabilised on scene by multiple ambulance services. They have been transported through to nearby hospitals for the care that they require,” said Jamieson.

One of the guards sustained moderate injuries and was under the care of advanced life support paramedics.