Armed robbers hit Vodacom shop
“He lifted his shirt to show me a concealed firearm.”
The police are still searching for the armed men who robbed a mobile phone store in Montana on Saturday morning.
On Monday, Wingtip Crossing’s Vodacom store manager Lyncoleen Leshabane shared her experience of being held up at gunpoint by the unknown suspects.
She said three men pretending to be customers entered the store around 10:20 on Saturday.
“It was just me and another consultant inside. While the consultant was helping one of the three ‘clients’, one stood at the counter.”
Leshabane said she had suspected nothing of the seemingly ordinary customers until that moment.
“He lifted his shirt to show me a concealed firearm.”
Leshabane and the consultant were taken into a back room and she said she was forced to open the safe.
“The man was holding the key so I could not press the panic button,” she said.
“The key fell and [when] I picked it up he threatened to shoot me if I tried to alert security.”
Leshabane said the men emptied the safe and took laptops, cellphones and other electronic goods.
“They ordered us to sit on the floor. They later brought in two customers and a child and left them with us.”
Leshabane said the robbers noticed the CCTV monitors in-store.
“They took out the whole box and left so they could not be identified in the footage,” she explained.
“Luckily, one of the customers with us in the room had a cellphone that we used to call for help after they [robbers] had left.”
Leshabane said police responded quickly.
Sinoville police spokesperson Warrant Officer Johan van Dyk said: “No arrests have yet been made.”
“We suspect there might have been more robbers involved. The getaway vehicle or vehicles is unknown.”
We ask the public to be alert and report suspicious people and vehicles.”
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