A Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara family has been left traumatised after armed bandits invaded their home on Monday evening and carted off cash and other valuables. The attack was carried out by two men around 8pm on Monday and lasted for about 15 minutes, after which they escaped with cash, three cell phones, a laptop computer and a wedding band.
Stabroek News was told that Uma Mangar, her parents and two other relatives were sitting under their house when they were pounced upon by the gunmen, who held them at gunpoint and demanded cash and other valuables.
During the ordeal, the family members were forced to lay on the ground inside the house.
Mangar told Stabroek News yesterday that at the time of the attack, she and her parents were entertaining two relatives, who were visiting their home.
She said that one of the bandits gained entry to the premises by scaling the fence. “He tell we to be quiet and get inside and he put we to lay down,” she recounted, before adding that it was at this point that they noticed there was a second individual.
Uma explained that one of the bandits held her at gunpoint and took her to the upper flat of the house, where he ordered her to hand over the cash and valuables. “At that time, I really couldn’t find anything, so he take me back downstairs and put me to lay down and then he take my mother upstairs,” she said.
She added that it was her mother who handed over the items to the gunmen out of fear.
The men, she said, were still not satisfied and continued to demand for more items. “They say that we must have some stash somewhere but after we keep saying, ‘no, we already hand over everything we had,’ I hear like they call someone to pick them up but they ain’t get through and they left,” Mangar added.
She said that after realising that the bandits had left, she and her family raised an alarm and subsequently made a report to the police.
