Crooks evacuate shop before bombing safe

Four armed men walked into the cafe at the Hindle Road Sasol garage, ordered everyone out and blew up the safe to get to the cash.

Cape Town - A small safe at a garage was blasted open in the early hours of this Tuesday in Blue Downs and cash was stolen.

Police spokeswoman Constable Noloyiso Rwexana said the incident occurred at about 2am at a garage in Hindle Road.

She said four suspects blew open the drop safe and fled in a white Mercedes-Benz with an undisclosed amount of money.

Rwexana said no one had been arrested yet.

The supervisor of the Sasol garage said four men walked on to the forecourt about 2am.

They placed a bomb on the garage shop drop safe and asked everyone to leave the shop before blowing it open and stealing money.

“It is the first time something like this has happened - the last time we were robbed at gunpoint,” he said.

In April, a man believed to have been one of five robbers intent on blasting open two Capitec ATMs in Khayelitsha’s Nonqubela Link Mall was killed in the explosion.

In January, five men believed to be part of a syndicate behind ATM bombings, business robberies and cash-in-transit heists in the Western Cape and Gauteng were arrested.

The men aged between 21 and 41 have been linked to several ATM bombings across the province.

Cape Argus