BANDITS escaped with millions of dollars in cash and other valuables when they attacked and robbed the Real Value Supermarket, Church Street, around 05:00hrs on Tuesday morning.

In the robbery, which lasted for more than one hour, a Chinese family who operates the Real Value Supermarket was robbed of a large sum of local and foreign currency, jewellery and had groceries from their supermarket carted off. The bandits reportedly showed up with two cars and parked one in the middle of the road, thereby preventing traffic from traversing west between Camp Street and Thomas Street on Church Street.

The bandits, who gained entry to the supermarket by cutting their way through a sheet of zinc, also made off with a licensed firearm belonging to the owner of the supermarket. Speaking with the Guyana Chronicle on Tuesday morning, owner of the establishment Jun Wang, also known as `Jason’, indicated that when he reviewed the CCTV footage he noticed that the men were outside of the store for more than half an hour before they entered the premises.

He said that a manager contacted the police to respond to the crime, but that was after the men had left. The police, however, arrived after the manager who came from one extreme of the city and they also came after the arrival of a private security service. The bandits managed to cart off some US$30,000, $G7M, $G2,000,000(two million)in gold, five iPhones and one laptop, along with a large amount of groceries from the supermarket.