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Gunmen snatch $3.5M from Chinese Hardware Store
Gunmen escaped around 17:00 hrs yesterday with some $3.5 M after tying up the owner and staffers of the Zhong Ya Hardware Store at the corner of Broad and Saffon Streets.
The owner, 41-year-old Chinese national, Wang Juguang, was beaten during the ordeal.
One employee was heard commenting that the robbery was well planned. There was also a brief but heated exchange between some staffers after suggestions that the bandits had inside assistance.
According to reports, the four men entered the store and one of them began examining a wheelbarrow.
Kaieteur News understands that a female employee went over to assist the ‘customer’ when the man grabbed her. The robbers, who were all armed, forced the employees to lay face-down on the floor before tying them up.
They then assaulted the owner of the establishment and forced him to hand over a quantity of foreign and local currency totalling some $3.5M.
Police said that the men escaped east along Broad Street in a white car.
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