tawandamusarurwa
Online Reporter
SIX private security guards who were securing refugees’ monthly allowances at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Chipinge, were disarmed and robbed of more than US$60 000 by two armed robbers on December 28.
Police are currently investigating the case.
Circumstances are that six private security guards who were securing the refugees’ monthly allowances, parked their cash-in-transit motor vehicle for the night at the entrance of a room that they had been issued to use.
Two unknown suspects, who were armed with an unidentified pistol, pounced on the security guards and took from them the motor vehicle keys, keys for Chubb safe affixed to the vehicle and a cell phone at gunpoint.
“The suspects went on to disarm the security guards of their Norinco pistol with a magazine of eight rounds and a 303 rifle with a magazine of eight rounds.
“The suspects then opened the safe and stole two trunk boxes loaded with US$60 360 cash,” reads part of the statement from the Zimbabwe Republic Police.
Police are pleading to anyone with information that can lead to the arrest of the duo to contact the nearest police station.
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