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Police investigating brazen daylight robbery in Pinetown
The Mercury
|November 26, 2025
THE KwaZulu-Natal provincial police have confirmed that police are investigating a brazen armed robbery at a shopping centre in Pinetown on Monday.
Videos of the alarming incident have gone viral on social media. In one of the videos, men wearing balaclavas and armed with rifles are seen removing boxes from a trolley and loading them into a white vehicle in the parking lot of the centre as other vehicles are driving past. The robbery took place reportedly at Pinecrest Centre.
यह कहानी The Mercury के November 26, 2025 संस्करण से ली गई है।
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