Johannesburg - A security guard was shot dead and two other people were injured in an attempted robbery in Crown Mines on Friday afternoon, police said on Saturday.
Lieutenant Kay Makhubela said men in a green BMW tried to rob a shop but left with nothing after the shooting.
At the time ER24 paramedics said a man in his 30s was found dead in a pool of blood in a guard hut.
He had been shot in the head and died on the scene.
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