Two Hawks members shot and killed in NW heist
Five people, including two Hawks members, were killed during a shootout following a cash-in-transit robbery in Mahikeng, North West on Thursday.
Hawks spokesperson Hangwani Mulaudzi says an unknown number of suspects, who were travelling in three vehicles, forced a cash van off the road.
One officer was shot and killed in the subsequent shootout.
Another Hawks member and three suspects died later in the afternoon while the anti-crime unit chased after the gang in Ventersdorp.
Three other suspects were also arrested.
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National police spokesperson Vishnu Naidoo says a group of armed suspects attacked a cash-in-transit vehicle between Mahikeng and Lichtenberg. "The suspects used explosives to gain access to the cash, but before actually removing the cash from the CIT vehicle, members from the Hawks and the National Intervention Unit responded.
Hawks head Godfrey Lebeya says the unit will leave no stone unturned in the search for the remaining suspects.
“We shall hunt the members of that organised criminal group that attacked the cash-in-transit vehicle and caused the death of our members.”