A DISTRIBUTOR of RUBIGAS, whose name was given as Roopnarine, was robbed of $200,000 by a bicycle bandit in Campbell Street, Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) in broad daylight on Wednesday afternoon.

Sheila Persaud, who usually purchase gas from the man, told the Guyana Chronicle that Roopnarine was sitting in the canter awaiting his co-workers to deliver gas to Persaud’s shop when a man armed with a handgun approached him on a bicycle.

The bandit held Roopnarine at gunpoint and relieved him of the day’s earning.

“I was inside when I heard one of the co-worker told another one to run bai he got a gun…the boy run in my backyard and was breathing hard,” said Persaud.

When she came out of her home, she saw the man on the bicycle riding off, after which she approached Roopnarine, who related what transpired. The police were contacted but the bandit managed to escape.

Persaud told this newspaper that persons are robbed frequently in the area as she pleaded with the police to improve their presence in the community.