Burnt Out

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A daring daylight robbery at Chicken Galore came to a fiery conclusion on Bank Hall Main Road, St. Michael around 3:20 this afternoon.

Depot manager Ingrid Eastmond said a man entered the store and demanded money from the cashier, which he received. However, he immediately lit a piece of cloth in a bottle he was carrying and threw it behind the counter resulting in the store becoming engulfed in flames.

This forced staff and customers inside the store to scamper for safety as the fire quickly spread. A visibly shaken employee Wendy Ross, who was in the store at the time, was seated in a car awaiting the arrival of an ambulance, when a Barbados TODAY team arrived on the scene. But up until 5 p.m. the ambulance had not arrived.

Meanwhile, other employees stood nearby and watched as firemen worked at extinguishing the blaze. The road was quickly cordoned off by police as traffic began to build with the approach of rush hour and crowds began to gather.

One regular customer said she was parking to come into the outlet when she saw a man wearing a white shirt and black pants running from the store. She wondered what was going on, but soon learnt that the store was robbed and on fire. Without hesitation, the woman said she called the police and went to the assistance of a female employee from the store who was visibly shaken.

However, a car owner is counting his losses after accidently locking the keys inside the vehicle which was parked right next to the burning building. That’s because onlookers moved swiftly to break the window with a brick and drove the car to safety. Police public relations officer Inspector David Welch said they received a call from a woman around 3:32 p.m. indicating that Chicken Galore had been robbed. An estimate of the damage could not be determined up to Press time.

Source: barbadostoday.bb

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