A well-known flower shop on Sosun Magu, Cactus, was robbed last night by a group of intruders who threatened staff with knives and box cutters.
Police Sub-Inspector Ahmed Shiyam said a group of men entered the shop last night at 11:30pm and
Shiyam said that one man had been arrested in connection with the robbery, and the case continued to be under investigation.
A witness to the incident, who later spoke with the staff, told Minivan News that three men entered the flower shop around and threatened the staffs with knife and cutters, and stole Rf35,000 (US$2700).
”I was passing by and noticed that the lights of that shop were off,” he said. ”They never switched off the lights so early.”
He said two Maldivian staff were inside the shop when three men entered.
”They entered the shop, switched off the lights and locked the shop,” he said. ”They punched one staff member’s eye and nose and grabbed another’s necklace and both their mobile phones.”
He said that the group went upstairs where the money was stored and opened the locker by damaging it.
”There was a security guard outside who was afraid to call the cops,” the witness noted.
(0)Dislikes
(0)
