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Published on 2024-02-23 02:45:00
The population demands an advanced police station for Anganomasina. For the second time, a grocery store was attacked in Anganomasina, in the municipality of Ambohijanaka. The robbers fled before the gendarmes arrived.
Insecurity is on the rise in the neighboring municipalities of Alasora and Ambohijanaka. Wednesday evening, just before 7 p.m., in Anganomasina, a grocery store was targeted by a gang of eight armed men for the second time. The gendarmerie does not wish to provide information at the moment. They claim to be conducting a thorough investigation into this criminal matter.
According to accounts from various civilian sources, local residents noticed the presence of strangers wandering in their neighborhood since 4 p.m. They did not expect what would happen in the evening. While customers were flocking to the store and the street was still lively, the situation suddenly turned into horror. The robbers attacked the shopkeeper, demanding all his earnings from the day and previous days.
The robbers also robbed all the people present, holding them at gunpoint. Then they quickly left the scene.
Unmasked
They would have taken about five million ariary, according to information gathered. Fortunately, no one was killed. Other shopkeepers quickly closed their doors. The gendarmes combed the area but lost track of the criminals in the darkness. Witnesses said the wrongdoers acted unmasked, but they did not know them.
The local population demands the establishment of an advanced police station due to the increasing insecurity currently prevailing. “Around 2 a.m., we were awakened by gunshots. It was coming from Tsilazaina. We thought the shooting was a result of the attack, but the gendarmes told us they had shot a cattle thief,” she said.
The gendarmerie confirmed that the captain of the Andoharanofotsy brigade had patrolled with the Ambohijanaka fixed post team as soon as he was informed of an attempted cattle theft. At that hour, they stumbled upon the perpetrator.
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