Gwanda miner robbed

Police said the three robbers overpowered three security guards, who were manning the school, and went on to ransack offices and opened the school’s safes.

Sione Amidu, Sunday News Reporter
ARMED robbers last week pounded on a homestead of a gold mine owner in Collen Bawn, Gwanda, and got away with US$40 000, police confirmed

In a statement, police said there has been an increase in the number robberies where suspects were targeted people who keep large sums of cash at home.

“On the 16th of October around 0200hrs ten identified suspects compounded at a 70 year- old mine owner’s homestead at Colleen Bawn, Gwanda, where they attached two of his family members before stealing US$40 000 and a cell phone,” police said.

The police said the suspects also attacked a nearby homestead on the same day and stole R310 000 and two cellphones as we as car keys of an unregistered Ford Ranger pickup vehicle from a couple suspected to be involved in illegal gold dealings.

“On 17th October at about 0000 hours, a 32 year-old man was robbed of US$5 000 after he was intercepted by four suspects who were in a Honda vehicle registration number AEQ 7448 while driving a Mercedes Benz C180 Okay

Leopard Takawira road in Bulawayo, the suspects produced an identified pistol before they dragged the complaint out of the vehicle and took money which was in a glove compartment in the dashboard,” added police.

Police said they were appealing for information that might lead to the arrest of the suspects.