{"id":17208,"date":"2022-06-10T12:05:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T12:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/armed-robbers-strike-in-bundung-loot-over-d1-3m"},"modified":"2022-06-10T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T12:40:56","slug":"armed-robbers-strike-in-bundung-loot-over-d1-3m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/armed-robbers-strike-in-bundung-loot-over-d1-3m","title":{"rendered":"Armed robbers strike in Bundung, loot over D1.3M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The robbers attacked Baja Kunda Financial Service in the early hours or Thursday morning. Awa Marega, an admin officer at Baja Kunda Financial Service who was contacted for comments confirmed the development to The Point, saying: \u201cI can confirm to you that the robbers have gone away with over D1.3 million. This money belongs to Baja Kunda Financial Service,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Marega added: \u201cAs of now, I can\u2019t confirm the amount of money which belongs to our customers and was also taken by the robbers. We have a separate vault where we keep monies belonging to our customers. I can tell you that nothing was left in that vault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quizzed as to how the incident occurred, she said: \u201cOne of our bosses in the person of Ebrima Kebbeh was travelling outside the country in the early hours of Thursday morning. When he (Kebbeh) arrived around our shop in Bundung together with his driver, he (Kebbeh) noticed that our shop was open. He stopped and asked the driver to find out what happened. The driver checked and later found out that the safes in the financial service were all scattered,\u201d he posited<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEbrima Marega then decided to call Kalilou Trawally who is also a manager at the Baja Kunda Financial Service about the incident,\u201d he stated, adding that the police were later informed about the incident. The spokesperson of The Gambia Police Force, Lamin Njie, couldn\u2019t be reached for comments at the time of going to press.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The robbers attacked Baja Kunda Financial Service in the early hours or Thursday morning. Awa Marega, an admin officer at Baja Kunda Financial Service who was contacted for comments confirmed the development to The Point, saying: \u201cI can confirm to you that the robbers have gone away with over D1.3 million. 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