{"id":914441,"date":"2022-01-08T06:54:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T06:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/08\/gauteng-father-killed-wife-and-children-wounded-in-botched-cash-heist\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T06:54:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T06:54:06","slug":"gauteng-father-killed-wife-and-children-wounded-in-botched-cash-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/gauteng-father-killed-wife-and-children-wounded-in-botched-cash-heist\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng father killed, wife and children wounded in botched cash heist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Durban – A Gauteng father was killed while his wife and children wounded following an attempt cash heist in Brakpan on Friday.<\/p>\n

Police said the family had been travelling behind a cash van that had been attacked by an armed gang.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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SAPS spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Netshiunda, said a G4S cash truck was travelling along the Van Dyk Street near Carnival City when it was allegedly rammed from behind by a Mercedes Benz sedan.<\/p>\n

“It is reported that the cash truck rolled over a private vehicle and allegedly killed a 44-year-old father and injured his wife and children. Security guards inside the cash truck were also injured during the incident and were taken to hospital for treatment,” he said.<\/p>\n

Netshiunda said no money was stolen and no firearms were taken from the security guards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said two cartridges were found at the scene.<\/p>\n

“Suspects were said to be travelling in three vehicles, an Audi, a Golf and Mercedes Benz. The Mercedes Benz was abandoned at the scene and preliminary investigations revealed that the vehicle was reported stolen in Jeppe in December 2021,” he said.<\/p>\n

Cases of attempted cash-in-transit and culpable homicide have been opened and police investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anyone with information is urged to contact the nearest police station or call our crime stop number 08600 10111.<\/p>\n

Alternatively they can tip-off the police anonymously on MySAPS App which can be downloaded on any smart phone.<\/p>\n

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Durban – A Gauteng father was killed while his wife and children wounded following an attempt cash heist in Brakpan on Friday. Police said the family had been travelling behind a cash van that had been attacked by an armed gang. SAPS spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Netshiunda, said a G4S cash truck was travelling along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}