Public spirited citizens apprehended two gunmen who carried out a daring robbery on two vendors at Bourda Market on Monday.

According to a police report, the robbery was committed on Wayne Miller, 51 years and Darmenna Wong, 43 years, vendors of Bourda Market, both of whom reside at Block ‘Y’, Section ‘C’, Grove, East Bank Demerara.

The robbery occurred at 23:00h and the men carted off with $500,000 cash. Investigations have so far revealed that the vendors were in the vicinity of Orange Walk and Robb Street, Bourda, when two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, approached the victims and robbed them of the cash mentioned. The victims raised an alarm and the suspects were apprehended by public spirited citizens.

The police were summoned and one 9mm pistol and five live matching rounds were found on one of the suspects. They  are in police custody assisting with the investigations