Task teams have been established to investigate bomb attacks on ATMs in every province where they have taken place, police said on Thursday.
National police spokesperson Superintendent Ronnie Naidoo said each province had its own task team to investigate the ATM bombings. The task teams were coordinated at national level, he said.
Some suspects had already been arrested after being linked to ATM blasts in the North West and KwaZulu-Natal.
In the North West, three of the attacks occurred in the Phokeng area outside Rustenburg — one at a hostel at the Bafokeng Mine, another at Freedom Park and the third at the Impala Mine hostel.
In all three instances explosives were used and cash taken.
A fourth blast occurred at a petrol station in Extension 3, Paardekraal, also near Rustenburg, in which the ATM was damaged but the robbers fled empty-handed.
In KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg detectives arrested two people they believed were going to blow up an ATM.
Two other people, believed to be accomplices, were killed in a pre-arrest shoot-out. Various firearms were recovered on the scene and those arrested were being treated in hospital.
In Durban, the organised crime unit arrested four men for allegedly causing an explosion at an ATM in Ashfield Avenue, Greenwood Park.
Investigations in these cases could lead to more arrests, Naidoo said. — Sapa