Robbers clean up store in 7 minutes
IT TOOK only seven minutes for four armed men to walk out of a grocery store with an undisclosed amount of cash yesterday.
AIMING: A robber who was
part of a gang that
robbed a grocery store in
Johannesburg. PHOTOS: ANTONIO MUCHAVE
ASSAULTED: Lamliki Khalid who manages the grocery store that was robbed. In CCTV footage that was viewed by Sowetan, four men are seen entering at Everyday Cash and Carry.
The grocery store is on the corner of Kerk and Troye streets in Joburg. None of the robbers had covered their faces.
At about 5.43am the main door of the store is seen half-opened and a woman employed as a cleaner is about to enter.
Suddenly a man wearing black pants, a matching T-shirt and a white cap follows her into the store. A few seconds later he is followed by another three men.
Inside the store they find a cleaner and a security guard who is reading a newspaper. The robbers then pull out their pistols.
Three of them charge at the security guard and pistol whip him, while the fourth man goes to close the shop's door. He then stands guard.
Then another security guard, carrying a bottle of water, calmly walks into the shop. The guard is expected to relieve the night shift guard who has been injured by the robbers.
The three men order the cleaner and security guard to go upstairs, with guns pointing at them from behind.
The fourth robber points his firearm at the second guard, who then lies down. He strips the guard's jacket and puts it on.
The man walks away and the guard is seen standing up and drinking his water.
Upstairs the three robbers go to the office of the manager, Khalid Lamliki.
"I saw them coming to my office and I locked the door. One of them broke the door and ordered me to come out," Lamliki said.
He said he surrendered and was assaulted.
"We went to another room where the cash was stored. All the time, the men pointed guns at me. They went to four bags which were loaded with cash. The robbers knew where the money was and what to take," he said.
They loaded the cash into a bag and freely walked out of the store.
Captain Pinky Tsinyane said they have arrested a 30-year-old man who is an employee at the store.
ApelMankotsana
This smacks of an inside job....the conduct of the second security guard who woke up and drink water during the robbery does not befit that of a security guard in the circumstances.Report Abuse
tpaz
Prostitution and armed robbery ...the oldest professions. They should make them all legal. No Killing should be involved.Report Abuse
Leroborobo
Inside Job and nothing else.... criminals mara ba tshwenya weitsi....we work our bloody buts off or nothing in this country.Report Abuse
maneater
the guard reading the newspaper; right there that is where the problem starts people not doing their jobs when they are supposed to.Report Abuse
MorenaWaPolelo
@tpazAre you any of the things that you mentioned if so how much do you charge?
Anyway the guard was reading a Daily Sun, this is what the the owner paid for ....pure inside job!!!
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ngutha
Mzansi, were will kids get jobs if these thugs keeps victimizing our entrepreneurs.
We need good business people who can apply their trade without fear !!
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candilious
@BaleliM-Morning its been month end dearest like you said it was an inside job so this money could have ,would have been disposed off in a day or two which the robbers knew alreadyMy take is the money was stacked away for move to the bank as their say the robbers knew exactly where the money was. Id say just Bad judgement on Employer side he put his trust in the wrong people
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pik_it_up
@BaleiMInside job and why keep so much money on the premises?
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thats how you run a business, you only take your profits from the previous to the bank on the next day also not forgetting to keep change for customers the owner was not in the wrong
ja ne as for not covering their faces....
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