JHB cellphone shop robbed

A cellphone shop was robbed at Benmore shopping centre in Sandton, north of Johannesburg, Gauteng police said on Thursday.

Armed robbers came in and pointed a firearm at the security guard and an employee, said Lt-Col Khensani Magoai.

"They took them to the storeroom, forced them to open the safe, and took an undisclosed number of cellphones."

Last week, Gauteng police commissioner Lt-Gen Lesetja Mothiba said the province's malls had been robbed 11 times since August 13.

On September 9, a robbery took place at an Altech Autopage cellphone store at the Glen shopping centre in Ormonde. Three armed robbers stole 15 cellphones worth R34,000.

The Samsung, iStore, and Vodacom shops in the same mall had all been robbed since November last year.

Earlier this month, a G4S security guard was shot dead when four men robbed him and his colleagues of cash they had collected from the Diepkloof Black Chain shopping centre in Soweto.

A Samsung shop was robbed at the Cradlestone mall in Krugersdorp, on the West Rand, on September 5.

Police said the robbers made off with cellphones and tablets worth hundreds of thousands of rand.

A Timberland clothing store at the World Wear shopping centre in Fairlands, Johannesburg, was robbed. Eight men took all the clothing in the shop and an undisclosed amount of money.

On September 3, the Telkom Connect shop in the Eastgate shopping centre was robbed of cellphones and an undisclosed amount of cash.

A cellphone store in Northgate mall was robbed on September 2.

A Telkom Direct store at Kolonnade shopping centre in Pretoria, was robbed on the same day.

Magoai said a case of business robbery was being investigated.

 

 

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