Independent on Saturday reports that SBV Services is offering a R1-million reward for information leading to the arrests and conviction of armed robbers who carried out a cash-in-transit heist at an ATM in Pinetown.  

On Friday morning, a SBV officer was shot and killed and another is in critical condition.  On Friday night, SBV Services CE Mark Barrett confirmed that the R1m reward had been put up and he commended the company’s team “for their bravery in defending this violent attack.”  The shootout started in central Pinetown at about 7am as SBV guards were transferring money into an ATM machine on the corner of Dale and Moodie streets.  A gang of armed men apparently attacked the guards as cash was being offloaded.  Gunfire was then exchanged.  A 50-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene.  The suspects fled in two getaway vehicles.

• Read this report by Tanya Waterworth in full at Independent on Saturday
• See too, Pinetown guards attacked while depositing money, at News24

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