Security guards escaped death when they were assaulted with knives and knop-kieries in Wonderboom on Thursday evening.
Community policing forum (CPF) crime prevention officer Piet Retief said five security guards were on duty behind Hoërskool Wonderboom on Thursday evening. They were at the gate of a new reservoir where the northern and Moot areas join.
The guards told Retief they were attacked by eight men who tied them up, stole their wallets and cell phones and beat them repeatedly with knives and knop-kieries. Retief said they suspect the men were cable thieves who were planning to burgle power cables at the reservoir.
Wonderboom South CPF were first on the scene and called Sinoville police as well as Sinoville CPF on the radio. Retief said CPF members from the two regions, as well as the police started to search the area for the suspected cable thieves, and Wonderboom South CPF called out a helicopter to assist.
The helicopter spotted the men twice but could not manage to track them down. The two CPF-groups and police chased the men for about seven kilometres.
Sinoville police spokesperson, Mirna von Benecke, said nobody has been arrested yet and the case was still under investigation.
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