A group of armed men robbed a cash-in-transit vehicle in Evaton, south of Johannesburg on Wednesday and got away with two cash boxes, police said.

One of the men, pretending to be a shopper, stood in a queue and waited for security guards to deliver money at a petrol station on the Soweto Golden Highway near Evaton, said Inspector Kinnie Steyn.

When the guard walked into the garage kiosk, the man produced a 9mm pistol and demanded the guard hand over the two money boxes he was delivering.

"He then jumped into a cream-white Nissan Sentra that was parked behind the cash van. Inside the car there was another four or five suspects, with one armed with an AK47."

They fled with an undisclosed amount of money and no one was injured during the incident.

The guard fired a shot towards the vehicle, but there was no evidence that any of the robbers was wounded.

Anyone with information should call Detective Inspector Lefu Ramabitsa form serious organised crime secretariat on 072 818 1897, police said.

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