Police search for gang of four

Cape Town police are hunting for a gang of four armed men who attacked a cash van in Observatory on Friday morning. They robbed the guards of an undisclosed amount of money. The attack happened outside the Spar on Station Road. Eyewitnesses say one of the gang members was armed with a machine gun. They held up the guards and loaded the money boxes, which had just been collected from the shop, in a getaway vehicle before speeding away. The police’s Billy Jones confirmed that no shots were fired and no-one was wounded in the incident.