A cash heist in Cape Town

Cape Town police are searching for a gang of armed robbers following a cash heist in Parow on Monday. Two security guards were collecting money from a store in a shopping centre when two men armed with assault rifles confronted them. Police spokesperson Bernadine Steyn says the men robbed the guards of a firearm and an undisclosed amount of money. Steyn says that the robber’s getaway vehicle with four other robbers inside stopped nearby. Three of theoccupants got out of the vehicle and opened fire on the security vehicle before all the suspects fled the scene.