A MANAGER attached to Yokohama Auto Sales escaped with his life following a daring armed robbery at Carmichael Street, Georgetown, on Thursday night when he was shot at and relieved of $1.4M in cash by two gunmen in a car.

It happened at about 19:00hrs when Deepak Balradj, 24, was driving along Carmichael Street and was forced to stop after he reversed his car into another vehicle when the robbers opened fire at him. His path was however, blocked by a silver Premio motorcar they were in and exited it and discharged rounds at Balradj.

The unsuspecting victim was then confronted by the bandits who took away the money he had in his pockets and in the glove compartment of his car and escaped with the booty along Middle and Carmichael Streets soon after.

Sleuths recovered one 9mm spent shell at the intersection of Carmichael and Middle Streets and one .380 live round was found on the floor of the victim’s car. No arrests have yet been made up to press time.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident, the police are looking for two men who robbed a farmer and his wife of $1M in cash outside their Windsor Forest home on Thursday afternoon, after they had made a withdrawal at a bank on the West Coast of Demerara.
According to reports, the farmer Ramadhar Singh and his wife, Pranpattie Singh had made a withdrawal at a bank at Vreed-en-Hoop after which they went about doing some errands.
It was when they reached their residence that the robbers descended on them while they were unloading from the trunk of the car, some items they had purchased from the car.
The couple were about to enter their home when the bandits discharged a round in the air while ,his accomplice held the 51-year-old man at gunpoint and took away the money. The robber then relieved Singh’s wife of a handbag and a cellphone.