Search on for third suspect in Wartburg armed robbery
Police are on the hunt for a third suspect following an armed robbery at a Wartburg business, north east of Pietermaritzburg.
The suspect's two accomplices, aged 25 and 34-years-old, are due in the New Hanover Magistrate's Court today after being caught within minutes of holding up a shop owner on Sunday.
Police say the suspects pointed a firearm at the business owner before fleeing the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash, airtime vouchers and cellphones.
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Spokesperson, Thembeka Mbhele says officers arrested one suspect at the premises.
The second suspect was arrested in a nearby sugarcane field.
Officers recovered an air-gun thought to have been used in the robbery, a knife, peppers spray, hammer and an axe.