The police are still looking for the four bandits who stormed the International Fisheries Limited on Saturday afternoon at the Eccles Industrial Site and robbed and beat six employees before carting off an undisclosed amount of cash.
According to one of the workers who did not want to be named, around 2PM, four of the workers were having lunch about 100 feet away from the East Bank Demerara building, while two other workers were still in the plant.
After finishing their meals they decided to head back to the building. However, as they were walking through the entrance, four men, who the worker said were covered in dry mud, attacked and forced them through the entrance. The man pointed out that two of the men were armed with guns and two others with cutlasses.
“Well because they were covered in mud they had to come from over the fence where the trench deh ..They mussy been hiding in the bush all the time waiting on us to finish eating and go inside,” he added.
While in the building they rounded up the two other workers and started to demand money, jewellery and cellular phones. “One of them girls de holding a bag and he [one of the bandits] grabbed she bag and pull out the money. They ain’t stop with she cause they start search everybody and but when they weren’t getting anything they start beating everybody demanding more but people didn’t have, people really didn’t have anymore,” the man related.
After the men finished beating the employees they ran out of the entrance, locked them inside of the building and scaled the fence that they used to enter the yard. The workers were able to get the entrance opened and contacted the police shortly after. The police related to Stabroek News yesterday that no arrests have been made and they are still in pursuit of the men.
The worker related that Saturday’s attack is the fourth time they have been set upon by bandits in the past two years.
