Gunmen grab $17m from clerk – police

The police today said that at about 0830h. today, Rajiv Singh, 21 years, a clerk attached to a city store, was about to enter a commercial bank on Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown, with a carton box containing $17.2M, when he was held up by two men armed with handguns.

The perpetrators took away the carton box with the money and escaped.

Investigations are in progress, police said.