Bandits raid Enmore supermarket

Jun 29, 2015 News

Customers and staff of the Savers Choice Supermarket at Enmore, East Coast Demerara were forced to endure several minutes of terror as a gang of armed bandits stormed the establishment and carted off several million dollars on Saturday.
The bandits struck around 10:30 hours and forced all the customers to lie face down on the ground while they held the staff at gunpoint and demanded cash. It was described as a well planned attack.
While no shot was fired and no one was reportedly hurt, the bandits terrorized their victims for several minutes, and it was only after the alarm went off that they eventually fled in a waiting car.
A taxi driver, Rayaan Moideen called “Kojac”, was one of the victims. He told this newspaper that he went to the supermarket to pick up an item for a customer and walked straight into the robbery which was already in progress.
Moideen said that as he was walking into the facility, he did not know what was taking place, since from the outside everything appeared normal. But the bandits, who had secreted themselves when they saw him coming, ensured that the cashiers did not give them away.
As Moideen entered the supermarket, one of the bandits who was carrying a gun “appeared from nowhere” and held him up.
“He tell me ‘don’t run’, don’t holler, lie down pon de ground’,” Moideen related.
He said that while he was lying on the ground, another bandit came to him and demanded his cell phone.
The bandits proceeded to rummage through his pockets and took out his phone, car keys and his wallet.
“Other people been lying down pon de ground, but I didn’t look up because dem men say dey will shoot, if anybody move or scream,” Moideen explained.
He said that he waited until the bandits left and when he heard the other victims getting up, he too got up and saw that everyone was shaken.
Moideen said that he managed to keep his composure throughout the ordeal, since it was the first time that he had an encounter with bandits.
Moideen said that he was hijacked at gunpoint before, during which he was badly beaten and thrown out of his car.
Yesterday’s robbery was reported to the police but so far no one has been arrested.

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