Four
men armed with guns, cutlasses and a crowbar robbed and assaulted
a Woodley Park, West Coast Berbice family which runs a liquor
restaurant of $146,000 in cash including US$100 and a total of
$197,000 in gold jewellery Saturday night.
The
police said about 21:00 h, 12-year-old Gulraj Vishman of
Lot 194 Woodley Park was going to see his uncle off and was about
to lock their gate when four men approached him and took him
inside the bottom flat of the building and demanded money and gold
jewellery.
The
robbers took Carmen Vishman,
50, and her daughter-in-law, Tajewattie Bissoondyal, 21, to the
upper flat of the building where they forced them to hand over
more money and jewels after ordering the other occupants to lie
face-down on the floor downstairs.
Carmen
Vishman was assaulted by the two masked gunmen and robbed of
$96,000 in cash from her shop drawer, four gold bands, one pair of
bangles and one pair of earrings, all valued at $ 71,000.
Her
daughter-in-law, Tajewattie Bissiondyal, 21, was relieved
of two pairs of bangles, three rings valued $78,000 and $50,000.
The
men escaped before the Police were summoned.
They
are hunting for the suspects who are said to be from the area.
And
at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara on Sunday morning, Police
responded about an hour after an armed robbery at Danny’s
Grocery and Parlour.
Robbery
victim, Trivenie Badrudin, 25,
of Lot 129 South Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, said he was
inside the shop at about 11:30 h when a man posing as a customer
approached him with an empty gas cylinder and asked the price of a
full one.
He
told him, collected $3,000 in cash and went to the garage to
deliver the gas when he was dealt several blows to the face with
the man’s gun and fell to the ground.
The
man was joined by two accomplices who were also armed with guns
and a grenade.
They
took him inside the bottom flat of the two-storey building, where
they assaulted his mother, Bhagwanie Badrudin, 43, and
roused his sleeping father, Mohammed Badrudin, 45. They
demanded money and jewels.
The
intruder with the grenade told the victims he would blow up
everything and them if they did not do as they were told.
The
men calmly walked away from the scene with an undisclosed amount
of cash and gold jewellery.
