Armed robbers seize $1.2M from WC Berbice woman

The wife of a No 30 Village, West Coast Berbice butcher was terrorized and robbed of $1.2 M when two masked bandits invaded their home around 12.45 pm on Friday.

The bandits beat Meenika Saroopchand-Roopnarine, 43, about her body after she misled them about where the money was kept.

They also bound her hands and feet together “like a cow” to the bed with an extension cable and gagged her with duct tape.

The money was the proceeds of business they had transacted that day and it seemed as though the bandits “came directly for that.”

Meenika was wearing a pair of gold earrings and the bandits did not touch them. They also