IOL News reports that a security guard was shot and seriously wounded in a cash-in-transit (CIT) heist in the Durban CBD on Monday morning.

A KwaZulu-Natal police (KZN) spokesperson said local police were investigating cases of attempted murder and attempted robbery following an incident in which armed suspects attempted to rob a cash delivery truck on the corner of Bertha Mkhize and Joe Slovo Streets. Security guards had just collected money from a store when they were ambushed by the suspects who fired shots at them. The suspects failed to gain access to the money and fled from the scene. Garrith Jamieson from ALS Paramedics reported: “Paramedics arrived on scene … and were shown to a injured guard lying on the pavement next to his vehicle. Paramedics assessed the man and found that he had sustained a serious gunshot wound to his upper body. He was stabilised on the scene by Advanced Life Support Paramedics before being rushed to a nearby hospital for the further care that he required.” In another recent incident, a 23-year-old Marburg resident was shot dead during a CIT heist on the N2 near Ifafa on the KZN South Coast. Caylin Lee Naidoo was killed by a single gunshot wound to the head. The robbers apparently mistook his Isuzu double cab, fitted with a strobe light, as a security vehicle and opened fire.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jolene Marriah-Maharaj at IOL News

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