/ 21 September 2000

ROBBERS HOLD UP POLICE STATION

TWO men in balaclavas have held up a police station in the Northern Cape, getting away with R370000, embarrassed police have reported. The robbers held up the lone policeman at the Groblershoop station, waited till his colleague returned from investigating a case, then locked them both in a strongroom. They took the money – intended for pensioners – from a private vehicle parked at the station for safe-keeping before driving away. – AFP