Georgetown : At 1:OO pm today, accounts Clerks Jonathan Dookie, 21 years, and Dewan Chand, 57 years, of Toolsie Persaud Ltd; accompanied by two armed security guards, were on their way to the Bank in a motor vehicle which stopped at Sussex and Charles Street, Charlestown.
At that point they were held at gunpoint by an armed man who approached the vehicle and took away a bag with some $16.9 million, along with a .32 Taurus Pistol and a .32 Taurus Revolver and ammunition from the two security guards and escaped in a waiting motor car.
Investigations are in progress.
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