THIEVES have broken into another business place on Essequibo Coast, stealing cash, jewellery, chocolates and phone cards, valued $2.5M, property of Param Sukh Toolsie.

The store, at Lot 20 Taymouth Manor, was hit around midnight Monday night while Toolsie and his wife were asleep.

He said she, Sunita Toolsie, awoke at 04:30 h and discovered the burglary when she ventured downstairs.

Speaking to the Guyana Chronicle, the woman said she saw the back door open and rushed back upstairs to tell her husband.

Both of then returned downstairs and found a sash window damaged and a back room in the two-storey concrete building ransacked.

Drawers were emptied and bags that had contained one million dollars were on the floor.

He said jewels worth $1.5M, $30,000 in chocolates and GT&T and Digicel phone cards with a value of $100,000 were all taken.

The businessman said the burglars used a chair to reach a window height and a hammer and a chopper were left at the scene.

He said his son’s house, located aback of the same yard, was also burglarised the same night and, although Police hurried there, no suspect has yet been arrested.