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Fiery heist deaths: 4 held
16/10/2006 19:16 - (SA)
Johannesburg - Four men allegedly involved in the Limpopo cash heist during which a security guard was shot dead and three burnt to death, have been arrested, police said on Monday.
Spokesperson Ronel Otto said the suspects were arrested over the weekend at several places in Gauteng.
The arrests followed an intensive investigation by a specially appointed provincial team under the leadership of deputy provincial commissioner Bennie Ntlemeza.
The team comprised members of the SAPS from Limpopo, North West and Gauteng, Otto said.
Three security guards were burnt to death and one was shot dead in the cash heist in Limpopo's Waterberg area, south of Polokwane on the road between Markel and Lephalele on the morning of September 29.
The guards Deon Steyn, Hennie Botha, Markus Malete and Dirk Kleynhans were transporting money to a bank in Lephalale when four gunmen in a Mercedes-Benz pushed their van off the road, causing it to overturn.
The robbers fired several shots at the van, killing one of the guards, before stealing an undisclosed amount of cash and then dousing the van with a flammable chemical.
One of the robbers set the security van alight.
After the attack, SBV offered a reward of R500 000 to anyone able to supply information that would lead to the arrest and conviction of the killers.
National police commissioner Jackie Selebi sent a team of senior investigators to Limpopo to assist in the investigation into the incident.
- SAPA
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