Thirty students and five chaperones were robbed on the tour bus in Eeufees Road in Pretoria on Sunday morning, Brigadier Neville Malila said.
“The tour bus was stopped by four armed motorcyclists,” Malila said.
The bus driver stopped the vehicle when one of the motorcyclists threatened him with a firearm.
The other three armed motorcyclists then got onto the bus and stole an undisclosed amount of US dollars and several cellphones from the students and chaperones, before fleeing the scene, Malila said.
No one was harmed in the robbery.
According to an online report by the Baltimore Sun, the students were from Stevenson University in Maryland in the US, and arrived in South Africa over the weekend to begin a five-week program of study, work, and travel…
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