BANTING: It took just three minutes for four armed men to rob a jewellery store inside a Giant hypermarket in Banting earlier today.
The men wore ski masks, gloves and jackets.
According to eyewitnesses, a man wearing a red ski mask entered the jewellery store and fired two warning shots before aiming his semi-automatic pistol at the store’s all-women staff.
It is understood that the man then ordered the staff to exit the store, yelling ‘Keluar’ multiple times as the staff scrambled in fear while the rest of the robbers entered with hammers and started smashing display cases in the store and grabbed the jewellery.
The men were said to have entered the store at 11.47am and dashed through the hypermarket’s main door at 11.50am and made their escape in a silver Naza Citra with plate number WTQ7731, heading towards Dengkil.
Initial investigations revealed that the car’s plate number was registered to a Myvi instead.
According to the store’s manager, the jewellery items are not insured and that the robbers took rings, earnings, bracelets and pendants.
