Two armed bandits terrorised an Adelphi Village household on Thursday night. The bandits escaped with over $300,000 in cash as well as several smartphones and a small amount of jewellery after fleeing just as police arrived.
Relating the family’s ordeal, Kamaldai Balram, 50, who operates a grocery shop out of her home at Lot 16 First Street, Adelphi, East Canje, Berbice, said they had visitors who left around 10.10pm. As she was closing the gate, she saw two men running towards her. She said she called for her husband, but before they could get into the house and close the door, one of the men jumped over the fence, put his hand through the grill with a gun and ordered them not to close the door.
Balram said her elder daughter had left her seven-year-old daughter with them and when her younger daughter heard the
