According to the police, at about 13:00h, today Thursday August 15, a gunman pounced on two Accounts Clerk attached to Toolsie Persaud Ltd and robbed them of $16.9M.
The police stated that the two clerks – Jonathan Dookie, 21 years, and Dewan Chand, 57 years – were accompanied by two armed security guards, when they were on their way to the Bank in a motor vehicle, which stopped at Sussex and Charles Street, Charlestown.
According to the police, at this point they were held at gunpoint by an armed man who approached the vehicle and took away a bag with some $16.9 million, along with a .32 Taurus Pistol and a .32 Taurus Revolver and ammunition from the two security guards and escaped in a waiting motor car.
Investigations are in progress.
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