Gunmen use sledgehammer to rob Ready Mix at Eccles

Armed bandits yesterday morning held two elderly guards at gunpoint before proceeding to rob the main office of Ready Mix Concrete Limited, located at 69-72 Eccles Industrial Site, East Bank Demerara. Police in a statement said that between 2: 30 am and 3:00 am, three men armed with guns “pounced upon the two watchmen, both in their late seventies and held them at gunpoint, proceeded to a section of the two storey-building and removed the cash from a safe which they used a torch to cut open and gain access.” The police added that Queensway Security Service, a private security firm responded to an alarm from the building and confronted the bandits during which there was an exchange of gunfire between the two sides but the suspects managed to flee the scene. The men managed to escape through a hole they had gouged in the fence at the back of the building and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.