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News24 reports that Western Cape police are on the hunt for gunmen who shot dead two men and seriously injured a third inside a Sasko-branded bread delivery van in Cape Town last week.
The shooting took place on the corner of Delft Main Road and Symphony Way in the early hours of Thursday morning. The perpetrators fled the scene and have yet to be arrested. The incident was recorded by the dash camera inside the van and subsequently posted to social media. In the video, the three men can be seen sitting, counting money and laughing. When the gunmen show up, they take the money from the driver, and then fire multiple shots at the victims before fleeing the scene. Cornel Vermeulen of Bakeries at PepsiCo SA, which owns Sasko, reported: “There were three people in the truck. The driver and one assistant were fatally wounded; the other assistant was shot in the arm and face – he managed to get out of the truck and look for help.” The truck, operated by one of Sasko's independent distribution contractors, had completed a delivery of bread to a shop in Delft and was leaving the premises when it was targeted. No stock was removed from the truck, and it is not known how much cash was taken. Vermeulen said: "Sasko is devastated by this incident and, although these victims were not directly employed by Sasko, it has reached out to the families of the deceased to provide support."
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lisalee Solomons at News24
- See too, Police probe gruesome Cape Town bread truck killings captured on dashcam, at TimesLIVE
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