Police are hunting two gunmen who carted off some $1.5 million from the Soesdyke Post Office
A sealed Soesdyke Post Office after the robbery
yesterday while robbing patrons inside the building.
The duo escaped from the robbery scene in a heavily tinted blue car and headed to the Soesdyke/Linden Highway. Reports disclosed that at approximately 11:20hrs, two men armed with handguns and with a haversack stormed the Post Office where they held up employees and escaped with booty.
Police have detained a man who was a former employee of the Post Office who was there at the time of the robbery.
According to a resident in the area, after hearing a loud sound he saw one tall and another short man exiting the post office armed heading to a blue tinted vehicle.
“This same car was around the area for the past two days up and down, then all of a sudden the same vehicle pick up the robbers and speed away,” another resident said.
At the Post Office, its personnel were reluctant to even leave the door open; they had closed the entire building.