Armed robberies committed on persons exiting city banks with large sums of money have been ongoing for a number of years, with four such cases recorded recently and it would appear that these crimes are carried out by gangs who are supplied with information.
Often victims sustain life-threatening injuries, which in many, if not most cases, are the outcome of them fighting off their attackers, trying to escape or raising an alarm.
A senior police official recently related to Stabroek News that the perpetrators