| Two Men Critical After Evening Robbery Attempt |
| Fri, August 29, 2014 |
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Two suspected armed robbers are in critical condition at the KHMH after they were shot during an armed robbery this evening in Belize City. It happened at around 4:15 at the Western Dairy Ice Cream Parlour where four men rode up on bicycles, stormed in and tried to rob the place at gunpoint.
Details are sketchy as to what happened next, but two of the men ended up getting shot - and two others made a dash out of the back of Western Dairies for Saint Thomas Street. Police were in the area and responded immediately - they set chase after the two suspects, following one of them all the way to Meighan Avenue.
They did not catch them, but they did recover a weapon - a small silver handgun - behind Western Dairies. They also recovered one of their caps and a pair of sunglasses.
No one inside Western Dairies was hurt, but we note that the robbers tried to do this at the height of the evening rush when traffic on Freetown Road is bumper to bumper.
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