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Daylight robbery: Armed men attack Royal Motors in Accra

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Armed robbers attack Royal Motors in Accra
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Armed robbers have stormed Royal Motors, a motorbike retail company in the North Industrial Area in Accra, Tuesday morning, and made away with a huge undisclosed amount of money and a vehicle.

Eyewitness reports indicate that about 4 of the robbers stormed the premises around 9:30 am on Tuesday, after following a van that had dropped off a cashier to collect the company's sales made the previous day.

According to a report from the staff, one of the robbers pretending to be a customer entered into the secretary's office under the pretext of negotiating the price of a motorbike.

Meanwhile, the other suspects attacked a security man in his cubicle, took his phones and beat him up.

Before the secretary and other staff realized, her potential customer-turned-actual-robber, threatened her as the other suspects wore masks and stormed the office.

The robbers fired multiple shots, destroyed glass windows and locked the secretary, security man, sales manager and other staff in one office, while they snatched about 8,000 cedis from the secretary's office.

They also entered another room where cash from the previous day was being counted attacked the cashier, took the money and destroyed a CCTV camera.

They snatched a car, took the damaged CCTV recording unit along with the undisclosed amount of money.

The Police are currently investigating the incident and are yet to present their findings.

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