Berbice : The police came out empty handed after a shootout with bandits last night at Berbice.
The police say four men armed with firearms entered the Fung-Fook Supermarket at Vryheid Village, West Canje, Berbice, and held up the owner Deryck Fung-Fook, his daughter and cashier Erika Fung-Fook and Leonard Bhagwandin of Vryheid Village.
The gunmen placed them to lie on the ground and took away a sum of cash and a quantity of jewellery and escaped.
The police responded promptly to the report received and pursued the men in the direction where they escaped, leading into a swampy area, during which there was an exchange of gunfire.
No arrest has been made.
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