BY Shauna Jemmott

ARMED bandits carted off $900,000 in cash and a quantity of jewellery as they robbed Bharrat’s Jewellery and Grocery Store at Robb Street and Orange Walk, Bourda, Georgetown, Friday morning.Police ‘A’ Division Commander Clifton Hicken told the Guyana Chronicle that around 09:30hrs , a 65-year-old woman was selling in the grocery department of the store when a man posing as a customer approached and ordered a gallon of water.
When the woman opened the door at the counter to deliver the water, the man stormed into the inner part of the shop and armed with a gun, grabbed the items. As the Guyana Chronicle visited the scene Friday morning, the police were conducting investigations, but the media could not have accessed the victim.
The owners of the store were contacted, but told the Guyana Chronicle that the female victim, who received minor head injuries during the ordeal, had visited the doctor and was too traumatized to speak to the press.
Sources around the area told this newspaper that the bandits dealt the woman a lash to her head, resulting in minor injuries. She was treated by a doctor and sent home.
Commander Hicken told the Guyana Chronicle that the police are examining images on surveillance cameras in the area, to see if there would be a breakthrough in the crime.