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Bandits hit Muneshwar’s in mid afternoon robbery
The proprietor of Muneshwar’s Hardware Store located at Lot E Good Hope,
The Appliance store that was robbed at East Coast Demerara
East Coast Demerara, is counting his losses after two unmasked men made off with an undisclosed amount of cash following a daring mid-afternoon robbery, yesterday.
Muneshwar was not at the establishment at the time of the robbery, but he was soon notified of the incident by staffers at the store.
Calvin Sookraj, the supervisor of the establishment told Kaieteur News that he only became aware of anything unusual when he heard screams emanating from the building. But by the time he headed into the store, he was only in time to hear an account of what had occurred.
According to Sajai Persaud, a porter at the establishment, he heard loud talking coming from the downstairs of the building since he was at the time in the top flat of the store and decided to check the source of the racket.
The porter said that when he entered the back gate of the establishment which leads straight into the store, he noticed two men standing at the cashier’s booth, both with guns in hand. He said the cashier was lying on the ground and one of the men walked up to him and slapped him behind the head.
The men, Persaud said, ordered him to the ground and told him to “Keep ya mout shut or I will shoot you”. The porter claimed that he kept his head down as the bandits went through the cash register, emptying it of its contents. The bandits then walked out of the business place like regular customers.
Sookraj said that he did see two men go back onto a motorcycle they came with and rode away, but still, he said, nothing seemed unusual.
Another porter said he went to the front door of the building to hand over a mirror to a customer. After doing so, he said he noticed the cashier Natasha Ali rise from the ground, then began to scream uncontrollably.
“I raise ma head and I see she get up and just start screaming, so I run to she and ask she what happen, but she ain’t answer; she just continue screaming.”
The porter said he then notified the supervisor that something was wrong.
Sookraj said that Ali was taken to the hospital since she suffered injuries to the head at the hands of the crooks and the girl was terribly traumatized by the whole incident. The men, Sookraj assumed, struck the cashier on the head with the gun.
Police ranks were at the time taking statements from the staffers of the appliance store.
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