Armed bandits carted off just over $2 million and other valuables during a brazen daylight robbery at a Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara business yesterday.
According to Narine (only name offered) who identified himself as a car dealer, at approximately 1:30pm yesterday, as he and his wife were entering their Vryheid’s Lust home, two bandits, one of whom was armed with a gun, approached them and demanded a bag which contained $2,027,000 which the couple withdrew from a city bank earlier in the day. The traumatized businessman told Stabroek News that the intruders also robbed him of a cellular phone, his licenced firearm, driver’s licence and other valuables.
Another relative who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that the two men after the robbery, jumped into a silver/grey Toyota Premio and drove south into a nearby street. However, the relative said that the two bandits and the driver of the car abandoned the vehicle after they realized that the
