ARMED bandits in a brazen daylight attack yesterday intercepted a motor vehicle at the Turkeyen Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara, held the occupants at gunpoint and took away a bag containing $6.3M and a quantity of raw gold and documents.

A police release last evening said that around 16:40 hrs, businesswoman Shireen Sheik, 26, of Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, was in a motor vehicle which had stopped at the traffic lights at Turkeyen Railway Embankment.
While the vehicle was at the stop lights, two men, one of whom was armed with a shotgun, rode up on a motor cycle, threw it in front of the waiting car, and fearlessly confronted Sheik and her driver.
They wasted no time in relieving the woman of the bag containing the cash and other valuables. In the next few moments, there was high drama on the Embankment Road as the bandits held up the driver of a passing motor car, took possession of the vehicle and fled the scene.
However, the rogue driver of the escape vehicle lost control of the car and ended up in a canal at Liliendaal.
By a stroke of luck, a police traffic rank on motorcycle rode up at the same time and sprang into action. One of the suspects was quickly arrested, but the other managed to escape, presumably with the cash. The other is now in police custody.
In another incident at about 14:15hrs yesterday, an armed man discharged rounds indiscriminately in the vicinity of the ‘Blacka’ at Guyhoc Squatting area, hitting Leon Daniels, 21, of Tucville Squatting area, in his right arm.
Daniels’ brother was earlier involved in an argument with three men who went away and returned, one with a firearm, and Leon Daniels was shot.
No arrest has been made as yet in either case but police investigations are continuing.