Cash-in-transit thieves hit Katutura
An unknown number of thieves attacked security guards from Namibia Protection Services yesterday, while the latter were collecting cash from a shop in the Shoprite shopping centre in Katutura.According to Petrus, an eyewitness, he was in the parking lot of the shopping center when he heard shots being fired. "I just heard clap, clap, clap and then the people started running. Many ran into shops while others climbed over the palisade that surrounds the centre. Others hid behind vehicles. It was chaos, everyone was petrified. Two guards were in the store collecting the money. The one "botsotsi" opened the driver's door and shot him in the arm.
"He was lying outside the van. The other two guards came out and the botsotsi ordered them to lie on the ground. They were shouting at them all the time: 'Just lie down, just lie down'. They took the guards' weapons and fled with the weapons and the money.
"The botsotsis were many and they all wore the same overalls. According to the other people here, the men hung around here for a long time and waited for the guards who had to come to collect the money. They drove out of the complex, turned left and drove in the direction of the Van Eck power station."
Nampol had not provided any additional information at the time of going to press.