Two suspected cash-in-transit robbers killed in Durban shootout

DURBAN - KwaZulu-Natal police said that two suspected cash-in-transit (CIT) robbers killed during a shootout with officers were caught after robbing a bank in Kranskop on Tuesday morning, north of the province.

Police said they found a large sum of undisclosed cash in the suspects’ vehicle with three rifles when they closed in on them in Phoenix.

The busy Phoenix highway was cordoned off as the bodies of the killed suspects lay on the road.

Officers said they started chasing the group travelling in different cars in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

It’s understood the suspects started shooting at police after one of their vehicles crashed.

Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi said they had been looking for this group for a while.

"It is part of the team and that group, there was a heist yesterday [Monday] in Kranskop, and of course, they always operate with someone within the companies. Do they have the inside information exactly about the movement of the vehicles? We’ve been hunting them since yesterday [Monday]."