By
Stabroek
staff |
Tuesday,
April 27, 2010
Armed bandits tied up and
later locked a watchman in a
toilet at Edinburgh, West Coast
Demerara early yesterday morning
before escaping with millions of
dollars worth of items from an
excavator.
Cop and taxi driver charged
Duo-Hymac-parts
Soldiers-extorting-cash
Managing
Director of Farm
Supplies Limited
Renger Van Dijk, hands over keys
of two excavators to Agriculture
Minister Robert Persaud.
Police said in a press
release yesterday that around
01:30 hrs, the watchman, Naresh
Mahadeo, who was working at the
residence of contractor, Suresh
Jagmohan was held up be five
men, two of whom were armed
with a handgun and a knife.
Five
men, two of whom were armed with
a handgun and a knife.
He was tied up and then
locked in a toilet.
According to the release, the
perpetrators then took away two
batteries, a hydraulic pump, a
starter and a computer box
valued $6.5 million from an
excavator that was parked on the
premises and escaped.
