A Cape Town businessman and his associates were robbed at gunpoint during a business meeting at a Johannesburg restaurant, one of the victims who declined to be named, said.
The six men were seated at an outside table at the Istanbul Kebab, a restaurant in the Sunninghill Shopping Centre, on Wednesday when the incident occurred.
A video clip of the robbery, which has gone viral on social media, shows a male in dark clothing jumping over a wall and pointing a firearm at the men.
Another suspect wearing light coloured clothes joins him, waving his own firearm at the group.
The victims are forced to the ground and their hands tied up, before the robbers remove watches, wallets and other items from each of them.
The second suspect then moves out of the video frame while the first heads towards the table.
As he picks up what looks like a wallet, his gun goes off and he runs away.
The men are then seen fleeing on foot.
ARMED ROBBERY. ISTANBUL KEBAB. SUNNINGHILL. COJ. GP. ROLEX & OTHER JEWELLERY + MOBILE FONES ETC TAKEN. pic.twitter.com/PuVq5zvaJk
— REZA (@crimeairnetwork) October 23, 2020
During the incident the Cape Town businessman, whose identity is being withheld for his safety, was struck by a bullet, but not seriously wounded. He returned to Cape Town on Thursday.
The man declined to be interviewed by African News Agency.
Online publication SAPeople quoted the restaurant owner as saying his son was at the establishment at the time of the robbery, but was unharmed.
African News Agency