Wakkerstroom – A post office was robbed of an undisclosed amount in cash during the pension grant payouts in Wakkerstroom, near Volskrust, in Mpumalanga on Friday morning, (2 February 2024).
Four armed suspects raided the post office and held the staff at gunpoint before forcefully opening a safe.
The robbers fled the scene with the undisclosed cash using two vehicles.
It was the second robbery on Friday in Mpumalanga in which armed robbers targeted a post office.
The Bulrushes reported that a post office in Mangweni near Malelane was robbed by two armed men on Friday (2 February 2024).
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Both suspects, one of them a paramedic, were arrested by the police just hours after the robbery.
Commenting on the Wakkerstroom post office robbery, Mpumalanga police spokesperson Colonel Donald Mdhluli said the police received a report of the incident and responded immediately.
Assisted by farmers in the Wakkerstroom area, the police managed to corner the four suspects.
“The four suspects were found in possession of a firearm with its serial numbers filed off as well as an undisclosed amount of cash believed to have been stolen earlier during the post office robbery,” Colonel Mdhluli.
“The suspects were then arrested and charged accordingly.
“The second vehicle believed to have also been used during the robbery was found abandoned in Wakkerstroom.
“The firearm as well as the vehicles were confiscated for further investigation.”
The suspects will appear at the Wakkerstroom Periodical Court on Monday, (5 February 2024).
They will face charges of business robbery and possession of unlicensed firearms.
