POLICE in Limpopo have appealed to communities to assist them in hunting for the robbers who have been terrorising the areas of Steilloop, Gilead and Lephalale for the past year.
Yesterday morning, the group allegedly broke into a shop at the Steilloop shopping complex and entered into Pep Stores. Once inside, the men allegedly used explosives to open a safe and made off with cash, believed to be in the region of R60000.
Police spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said no arrests had been made and that the search for the men was still on.
He said the group had been terrorising the area since November last year.
"We have established a task team comprising members of the crime intelligence operatives and organised crime unit to follow up on the group," Mulaudzi said yesterday.
He said they were worried that it had been a while that the group was unleashing its reign of terror without the police being tipped about their whereabouts.
"We are now going out in full force to ensure that we track down the group and arrest the members. We are appealing for cooperation from community members," he said.
According to Mulaudzi, the gang was responsible for blasting an ATM in the area, and bombing safes at the Shoprite/Checkers store in Steilloop in June this year.
The gang also allegedly hit a filling station twice.
Mulaudzi said they believed the robbers were being assisted with explosives by people working in the mines in the Lephalale area.
Robbers run amok
POLICE in Limpopo have appealed to communities to assist them in hunting for the robbers who have been terrorising the areas of Steilloop, Gilead and Lephalale for the past year.
Yesterday morning, the group allegedly broke into a shop at the Steilloop shopping complex and entered into Pep Stores. Once inside, the men allegedly used explosives to open a safe and made off with cash, believed to be in the region of R60000.
Police spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said no arrests had been made and that the search for the men was still on.
He said the group had been terrorising the area since November last year.
"We have established a task team comprising members of the crime intelligence operatives and organised crime unit to follow up on the group," Mulaudzi said yesterday.
He said they were worried that it had been a while that the group was unleashing its reign of terror without the police being tipped about their whereabouts.
"We are now going out in full force to ensure that we track down the group and arrest the members. We are appealing for cooperation from community members," he said.
According to Mulaudzi, the gang was responsible for blasting an ATM in the area, and bombing safes at the Shoprite/Checkers store in Steilloop in June this year.
The gang also allegedly hit a filling station twice.
Mulaudzi said they believed the robbers were being assisted with explosives by people working in the mines in the Lephalale area.
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