An overseas-based Guyanese was yesterday relieved of his licensed firearm and $215,000 when two gunmen, pretending to be prospective tenants, invaded his home.

   

According to reports, around 12:30 hrs yesterday two men attacked 59-year-old Roy Indal and one of his workmen at the man's 31 Seaforth Street, Campbellville home.

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Indal told Stabroek News that he and his carpenter were in the yard setting up a ladder when the two men approached them.

"Two men came up to the gate and ask if I had anywhere to rent, I said no, so one of them offered to help us with the ladder," Indal said.

After the men had helped them with the ladder, they pulled out what appeared to be revolvers and ordered both Indal and his worker into the house. "After they pulled out their guns they forced me to open the door to the house, they tied us up with tape, went into the bedroom and stared to ransack the place," the man said.

Throughout the ordeal the two robbers kept asking for a safe containing money, Indal told this newspaper. "Even after they found the money they kept asking for some safe… I told them I have no safe and they still kept asking and one of them came out of the bedroom and hit me in my head with a gun," the man recalled.

Indal told Stabroek News that the men also relieved him and his worker of their cell phones and calmly walked out of the house carrying the shotgun in its case. Indal said he was later told by neighbours that they saw the men walking down the road carrying the gun-case, but did not pay any attention to them.

The man said that shortly afterwards, he and his worker managed to free themselves and called the police, who took almost an hour to arrive on the scene; the fingerprint expert arrived another two hours later. Investigations are ongoing.