Bandits rob Meten-Meer-Zorg pastor, church members

At about 2000h. last night, the police say that Pastor Dillip Bikhari of the Universal Church at Meten-Meer-Zorg, WCD, was in the process of closing the church when he, along with Andrea Santos of Brazil and two other church members, were attacked and held up by three men armed with handguns.

The men took away about $400,000, three cell phones, US$1,000 and a lap top computer and escaped.

The police responded to the report received and were able to arrest one of the suspects in the Meten-Meer-Zorg area in whose possession was found an unlicensed .357 magnum revolver, one of the stolen cell phones and the stolen lap top computer.

He is in police custody assisting with the investigations.