Gunmen in Jamaica on Saturday morning held up an Atlas vehicle and made off with more than a million dollars in cash.
According to a commander in the St Andrew North Police Division, the incident unfolded outside the Western Union outlet at Washington Plaza in the parish, about 10:30 am.
The officer, who declined to be named, said the gunmen seemed to have waited until two of the security guards had entered the premises before they held up the driver, who was sitting inside the vehicle, at gunpoint.
The driver managed to escape the vehicle before the gunmen drove it from the scene, police said.
The vehicle was later discovered abandoned nearby, however, the cash was missing.
Up to late yesterday evening, police were still trying to ascertain how much money was taken by the robbers but estimate in was in the millions of dollars.
“I cannot say the exact amount of money that was stolen because I have not received (all) the preliminary details of the investigation as yet. I can confirm, however, that the incident happened,” said the police officer.
The incident follows last month’s brazen daylight hold-up of another security company’s courier vehicle along East Road, off Hagley Park Road in Kingston. In that incident, hoodlums made off with more than $50 million after hijacking the car in which three security guards were travelling.
In that incident, the hoodlums also relieved one of the security guards of his .38 Smith & Wesson revolver and 12 rounds of ammunition before escaping.
Police reported that in that instance, the bandits, travelling in a blue Honda motor car, rammed the Suzuki Liana motor car in which the security guards were travelling, forcing it to stop.
They then ordered the guards away from the vehicle and fled the scene in it. The stolen vehicle was later abandoned on Greenwich Street, in the Kingston 12 inner-city community of Rema.
It was not immediately clear yesterday, whether or not their was any connection between the two incidents.
