East London – A municipal worker was robbed while on his way to deposit money in a bank in Lusikisiki on Tuesday, Eastern Cape police said.

Four men driving a VW Polo ordered the Ingquza local municipality worker out of his car at gunpoint in Main Street, said Captain Mduduzi Godlwana.

“They took two bags of the municipal money, his car keys and his service pistol before they ran away.”

Police were searching for the men.

Sapa