Police are investing an armed robbery which occurred on Sunday evening at Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara, in which two businesswomen were attacked by two armed gunmen.
Information from the police, revealed that at approximately 6.25 pm, Bhagwattie Surujpaul and her sister Kamwattie Surujpaul were about to close their grocery store, when two masked men, armed with handguns, entered the store and confronted them.
According to the police, the two men tied up the women, gun butted them and demanded cash.
The gunmen reportedly took $1 million that was in a drawer in the store and then escaped.
