Police have tracked and seized two vehicles believed to have been used in this morning’s cash-in-transit (CIT) robbery on Elias Motsoaledi Road.

According to Gauteng police spokesperson Lt-Col Mavela Masondo, three security officers were travelling in a CIT van when it was rammed by a white Mercedes-Benz approaching from the opposite direction.

“The CIT van capsised, after which additional suspects arrived in two BMWs and a Nissan Hardbody bakkie,” Masondo said.

“Some suspects engaged a security officer who was escorting the CIT van in a separate vehicle, resulting in a shootout, while others placed explosives and blew open the cash van.”

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Masondo said the suspects disarmed the three security officers inside the van before fleeing the scene with an undisclosed sum of money. The Mercedes-Benz was set alight before they escaped.

Through a joint operation involving Gauteng Traffic Police and private security companies, officers tracked one of the BMWs and the Nissan Hardbody to a residential address in Meadowlands, Soweto.

“These vehicles were confirmed to have been hijacked,” Masondo added.

A man and a woman found at the address were taken in for questioning.

“The search for the suspects and efforts to recover the stolen cash are ongoing,” Masondo said.