Three follow and rob tourists
Three ambush tourists in the Lake Hotel Centurion parking on Sunday evening, robbing them of passports and valuables.
Gopolang Chawane
Three men in a white Golf ambushed tourists at a hotel in Centurion at the weekend, robbing them of valuables after following them from OR Tambo international airport.
Chairman of the Lyttelton Sector 1 CPF, Hugo Erasmus said three men followed a group of tourists from the airport on Sunday night.
“The tourists, alleged to be from Ghana, were ambushed at the Lake Hotel parking as soon as they got out of their vehicle.”
He said the armed robbers took passports, money and bags and fled in a white Golf 7.
OrangeFox security confirmed the armed robbery and said OrangeFox, Lyttelton sector 1 CPF, The MonitorNet reaction unit and Lyttelton police responded to the armed robbery.
Hotel general manager Andrew van Hasselt said the hotel was in no position to issue a statement at the moment and any questions would have to be forwarded to their head office.
Lyttelton police could not be reached at time of print.
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