10 robbers were killed during a heist in South Africa.
Police Minister Bheki Cele earlier reported that police killed eight suspects planning to attack a vehicle carrying cash.
But the country’s Independent Police Investigative Directorate, Grace Langa, updated the number to 10, with five police officers wounded.
Police acted on a tip-off and deployed a chopper to fend off a planned cash-in-transit robbery in southern Johannesburg’s suburb of Rosettenville.
The suspects fired at the police chopper and wounded one of the pilots, forcing police to shoot back.
The minister said a gang of about 25 gunmen from the southeastern KwaZulu-Natal province as well as from neighbouring Zimbabwe and Botswana were involved in the attempted robbery.
Eight of the surviving gang members were arrested and the rest are on the run, he said.
Robbers often target vehicles transporting cash in crime-ridden South Africa.
Police last week reported that 60 cash-in-transit robberies were committed between October and December 2021, a slight drop from the same period in 2020.
