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Oct 11, 2010 News
– third bandit nabbed, shot accomplice hospitalised
Three persons are currently in police custody following Saturday’s daring robbery at the Leonora Market.
Initially only two persons were held but a source said that due to diligent police investigations a third accomplice was arrested yesterday.
According to a source, police ranks are also expected to scour a canal in the Uitlvlugt, West Coast Demerara area where the men were found, as a borrowed licensed firearm is suspected to have been dumped in the canal.
The firearm is reportedly the property of an East Coast Demerara resident.
Kaieteur News was told that the undisclosed sum of jewellery which is estimated to be worth millions of dollars has been recovered along with the cash that was taken.
The robbery occurred sometime after noon where three gunmen attacked and robbed Sabita Ghoordani, who operates a jewellery stall in the Leonora market.
Reports state that Ghoordani had just finished packing up the stall when the gunmen pounced.
Reports are that that one of the men placed a gun to Ghoordani’s throat and the other took away a haversack which had in it the day’s sales, along with jewellery and a cellular phone.
The men fled with their booty but police nabbed two of the robbers in the vicinity of Uitvlugt on the West Coast of Demerara.
They reportedly shot at police ranks of the anti-crime unit and police returned fire hitting one of the bandits.
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