KUCHING: A female trader lost RM32,000 in a brazen smash-and-grab incident moments after withdrawing the cash from a bank in Stutong yesterday.
The trader’s car at the police station following the smash-and-grab.
The 39-year-old victim told police that she had just gotten into her car after withdrawing the sum from a bank at Jalan Setia Raja around noon when two men on a motorcycle pulled up on the left side of her vehicle.
One of the men then smashed the front passenger window and reached inside to grab her handbag off the seat before the pair sped off on their machine.
The heist occurred in a flash that the stunned trader was unable to get a good look at either the make of the motorcycle or its licence plate number.
Apart from the money, her handbag also contained a mobile phone, bank booklets, a cheque book as well as the keys to her office.
Police are investigating after a report of the incident was lodged.
Separately, a fisherman from Kampung Santubong suffered multiple cuts after he was attacked by a fellow villager over a missing gas cylinder.
The 25-year-old victim said the incident happened around 2am yesterday when the villager came at him with a machete after accusing him of stealing a gas cylinder.
He was left with cuts to his forehead, arm and neck, and sought medical attention prior to lodging a police report.