DUNGUN: Three men with pistol and parang robbed a petrol station of RM4500 cash and prepaid cards worth RM600 here in Rantau Abang on Sunday night.
The two petrol station workers who were working at the time were not harmed in the 7.40pm incident.
According to a source, two suspects who wore masks entered the petrol station office and threatened the workers with their weapons, while another accomplice waited in a white Perodua Viva outside the premise.
After several minutes the suspects fled the scene and headed towards Marang in the their vehicle which was believed to have been fitted with a fake number plate.
It was belived that no shots were fired during the robbery.
Meanwhile, state Criminal Investigation Department chief Assistant Commissioner K Manoharan said police are looking for the suspects and the case is being investigated for gang-robbery.
Two men, armed with a pistol and a machete, robbed a petrol station in Rantau Abang near here of about RM4,000 last night, police said today.
The men came to the station at 7.15 pm when only two women employees were on duty, drew the weapons and ordered the women, in their 20s, to sit down, said Dungun Police chief Supt Dahlan Mohd Noor. [Pic right]
They then grabbed the cash and prepaid cards from the cash register, and fled in a car driven by an accomplice towards Kuala Terengganu, he said.
Dahlan said police were trying to trace the robbers from the recording of a CCTV camera at an ATM machine in the shop at the station because the CCTV camera at the station itself was not functioning owing to recent repairs done at the premises.
He also appealed to eye-witnesses to contact the nearest police station.
