The Hawks have taken over the investigation into a cash-in-transit robbery that resulted in a shootout between the robbers and security guards outside one of Gqeberha’s busiest malls on Wednesday morning.

Fortunately, a concrete wall outside a nearby car dealership took the brunt of the gunfire and no injuries were reported outside the Greenacres Shopping Centre, or at the subsequent scene in Kensington, where the robbers, travelling in a bakkie, allegedly hijacked another vehicle and sped off...