Police are looking for four men who robbed an Ottery store on Friday night and then evaded cops in Mitchells Plain.
A shop employee at Riza Cash and Carry in De Wet Road says that while they were cashing up and serving the last customers just before 9pm, four men wearing masks pulled up in a grey Hyundai and stormed the store with guns.
The 25-year-old man explains: “They came running into the shop waving their guns and they forced us to the cash register.
“They then took cigarettes and made the manager go into the back room to get the money and the other cigarettes in the store room.”
When the Daily Voice visited the shop on Sunday we found that the store is located in front of a farm that has security guards posted a few metres from the door.
However, the guards said neither of them were on duty on Friday night.
The employee says: “There were guards at the other gate but they only noticed that we were robbed when the guys ran out the shop again.
“They thought the four guys were customers because they could not see their guns when they got there, but they were the ones who called the police.”
According to a police source, the robbers took one of the staff members’ tablet which showed the thieves’ last known location to be in Tafelsig.
SAPS spokesperson FC van Wyk says the armed skelms robbed the cashiers of money, cigarettes and groceries. They also robbed the staff and two patrons of their cellphones.
He says no shots were fired and no arrests have been made.
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