EWN reports that on Thursday morning a security guard on Thursday morning was critically wounded after he was shot during a cash-in-transit (CIT) heist on the N3 highway in Spruitview, Ekurhuleni.  

Paramedics said the man was found on the side of the road with a gunshot wound to his head.  He was airlifted to a private hospital.  “ER24 paramedics, along with another private service, arrived on the scene at 08h10 to find the cash-in-transit vehicle on the side of the road.  The male security guard was found lying a few metres away.  Medics assessed the man and found that he had sustained a gunshot wound to his head, leaving him in a critical condition,” said ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sifiso Zulu at EWN

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