Cops on the hunt for six armed robbers who escaped with 5kg of gold

BUKIT MERTAJAM (Bernama): Police are on the hunt for six men suspected of being involved in an armed robbery and escaping with 5kg of gold worth RM900,000 belonging to a company in a brazen robbery in front of Seberang Perai Tengah’s Drainage and Irrigation Department office here Monday (June 3).

Seberang Prai Tengah district police chief ACP Nik Ros Azhan Nik Abd Hamid said in the 10.30am incident , three masked robbers, armed with a parang each, stopped a Proton X70 SUV (sports utility vehicle) driven by two employees of the company, before escaping with the SUV.