Blocked vehicles, gun taken from guard
Bandits struck at Eccles, East Bank Demerara yesterday, robbing a Bakewell bakery employee of $1.8M and grabbing the gun of a guard.
In a chilling and well-planned operation, five gunmen held up Chrishandatt Deolall and Paul Hector after blocking their vehicles. The five men all had guns and three were reportedly outfitted in dark blue uniforms.
The police said that Deolall was driving PKK 923 and Hector, an armed security guard attached to an unnamed private security service, was driving PKK 6815. On reaching Eccles Old Road around 12.20 pm, a vehicle with the five gunmen drove up and blocked the path of the other two vehicles.
The police said that five men then exited and held the victims at gunpoint. They took a .38 revolver with seven rounds from Hector and the bag with $1.8M from Deolall’s vehicle after breaking the right side front window. The police said the bandits then escaped.
The attack bore similarities to a failed one on the Ogle airstrip road two weeks ago. Then, gunmen ambushed a vehicle which was leaving the airstrip.
The driver did not stop even though sustaining a gunshot wound and managed to make it to the Sparendaam police station. The gunmen fled.