“Police in Pretoria have launched a manhunt for a group of about four suspects following an armed robbery at an iStore in Centurion Mall today at about 10:45am. The suspects fled the scene in three vehicles, a white Corsa, black Audi A4 and a Silver Mazda,” Lt Colonel Khensani Magoai said in a statement.

“It is alleged they entered the iStore pretending to be customers. They instructed the manager to open the safe and took iPhones, laptops and tablets worth more than a million rand. The guard at the mall gave chase and suspects started shooting.”

Nobody was injured.

This is the third robbery in as many weeks, the first being at Cresta shopping mall where the group of men took an undisclosed number of cellphones and iPads and fled the scene. They shooting randomly in the parking lot of the mall as they got away, injuring the elderly man.

That same week a group of men robbed an iStore at Glen Shopping Mall in Glenvista, Johannesburg, shooting and injuring a security guard before they fled the scene.

A similar modus operandi was followed but police said it was too soon to link the crimes.

Police appealed to anyone who may have information about the whereabouts of the suspects to contact the nearest police station or Crime Stop at 086 001 1011.