The number of cash-in-transit robbers killed in a Limpopo safe house rises to 19

Lerato Mbhiza

Another body has been found, which brings to 19, the number of alleged cash-in-transit robbers who were killed during a shootout with police units on Friday inside a house in Makhado, Limpopo.

Provincial spokesperson for the Hawks in Limpopo, Lieutenant Colonel Matimba Maluleke, said the body of a man was found as the law enforcement agents continued to comb the scene for clues this weekend.

The National police commissioner General Fannie Masemola visited the scene of the shooting on Friday, and told the media that police had received intelligence of a planned cash-in-transit (CIT) heist.

According to Masemola, police members approached the suspected safe house and that’s when the shootout ensued. 

The shooting lasted for about 90 minutes. 18 men were shot dead, and one police officer was seriously injured and was taken to hospital, he said.

“A group of cash-in-transit heist criminals, over time planned this CIT