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Momodou
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 Posted - 10 Feb 2007 : 15:34:14
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ARMED ROBBERS HIT BRIKAMA
By Modou Jonga
Reports have it that six men armed with machetes, on Sunday 4th February, 2007 attacked and broke into shops located around the main Brikama Garage. According to sources, the six armed men came late in the night on the said date. It added that a watchman in the affected area fought with the armed robbers but he was subsequently overpowered.
According to a victim of the armed robbery, one Muktarr Faal, a Mauritanian National, the armed robbers went away with cash amounting to D3,600 (Three Thousand Six hundred), four hundred CFA Franc and twenty rolls of cloth.
“I was surprised to found the door of my shop broken in the morning with the watchman waiting,” lamented the Mauritanian businessman. He explained that before the arrival of the Police Intervention Unit to the scene, the robbers had disappeared.
In a related incident earlier in January, another Mauritanian businessman Seedy Muhammed reported that the robbers made away with a cheque amounting to one thousand dalasi, ten thousand dalasi worth of commodities and a cell phone.
The Mauritanian businessman expressed shock over such criminal acts and noted his fear for the spread of armed robbery in the country. According to the same businessman, another group of armed robbers also earlier on, in January, broke and entered into another one of their shops close to the Brikama Police Station.
However, when contacted to shed light on the purported armed robbery, the officer commanding the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Western Region, Mr. Biran Salieu Jobe, directed this reporter to contact the police PRO. Meanwhile, an insider at the Brikama police station (name withheld) said investigation into the said armed robbery is at an advanced stage and stated that the robbers have made away with commodities, valuables and monies.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 016/2007, 9-11 February, 2007
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