Staff Reporter.
SA Police Service (SAPS) in Gauteng have confirmed that six cash-in-transit suspects were killed in a shootout with police in Laudium, West of Pretoria on Monday.
Gauteng deputy provincial commissioner Maj-Gen Fred Kekana said the suspects were traced through a multidisciplinary intelligence operation which had detected that the suspects were intending to rob a CIT vehicle in Pretoria.
Kekana said police have also established that one of the vehicles used by the suspects was hijacked in Cleveland in December.
The suspects have already been linked to several CIT heists in different parts of the country, he said.
Four firearms were seized on the scene while one suspect was arrested.
This comes less than a day after police shot and killed five suspected robbers in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) on Monday.
Compiled by Lehlohonolo Lehana.