The police said about 21:00 h, 12-year-old Gulraj Vishman of Lot 194 Woodley Park was going to see his uncle off and was about to lock their gate when four men approached him and took him inside the bottom flat of the building and demanded money and gold jewellery.

The robbers took Carmen Vishman, 50, and her daughter-in-law, Tajewattie Bissoondyal, 21, to the upper flat of the building where they forced them to hand over more money and jewels after ordering the other occupants to lie face-down on the floor downstairs.

Carmen Vishman was assaulted by the two masked gunmen and robbed of $96,000 in cash from her shop drawer, four gold bands, one pair of bangles and one pair of earrings, all valued at $ 71,000.

Her daughter-in-law, Tajewattie Bissiondyal, 21, was relieved of two pairs of bangles, three rings valued $78,000 and $50,000.

The men escaped before the Police were summoned.

They are hunting for the suspects who are said to be from the area.

And at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara on Sunday morning, Police responded about an hour after an armed robbery at Danny’s Grocery and Parlour.

Robbery victim, Trivenie Badrudin, 25, of Lot 129 South Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, said he was inside the shop at about 11:30 h when a man posing as a customer approached him with an empty gas cylinder and asked the price of a full one.

He told him, collected $3,000 in cash and went to the garage to deliver the gas when he was dealt several blows to the face with the man’s gun and fell to the ground.

The man was joined by two accomplices who were also armed with guns and a grenade.

They took him inside the bottom flat of the two-storey building, where they assaulted his mother, Bhagwanie Badrudin, 43, and roused his sleeping father, Mohammed Badrudin, 45. They demanded money and jewels.

The intruder with the grenade told the victims he would blow up everything and them if they did not do as they were told.

The men calmly walked away from the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash and gold jewellery.