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Bandits grab $7M from clerks heading to bank

Aug 15, 2012 News

 
Investigations are ongoing into a daring robbery yesterday at McDoom in which bandits escaped with over $7M after sticking up two clerks.
According to a company official from the Farm Supply and General Equipment Ltd. at Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara, internal investigations were being carried out into the daring mid- morning robbery that saw two accounts clerks reportedly being robbed.
The incident occurred at around 10:45 hours, according to a police press release. It is alleged that the clerks were on their way to a bank when a horse cart blocked the path of the vehicle the clerks were travelling in along the Mc Doom access road leading to the company.
Two men, armed with hand guns, reportedly held up the clerks at gunpoint and took away a bag that contained the large sum of money. Police said the men escaped on foot.
Police said investigations are in progress.

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