Gun-toting bandits on Saturday night carried out a brazen robbery of customers of a shop located at First Street, Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara (EBD), robbing them of over $20,000 in cash and cellular phones.
Information reaching this newspaper revealed that at around 10:15pm, two men armed with hand guns arrived at the shop on a blue Honda CG motorcycle. The men, who did not wear masks, walked into the shop and pointed their guns at the customers and ordered them to lie on the ground.
The customers obeyed, a police source said, and the perpetrators proceed to rob the victims of their valuables and cash. During the robbery, a minibus driver, Wazeem Hussain, of Section C, Block Y, Golden Grove, EBD was robbed of a Samsung cellular phone valued $30,000, and his conductor Mark Richman of Golden Grove, EBD was robbed of his Blu Cellular Phone and $20,000.
The bandits then jumped on their motorcycle and fled the scene. Surveillance footage from a nearby camera is being reviewed by the police as they continue their investigation.
