It was a daring cash-in-transit robbery when five men, armed with two pistols, stormed an armoured security van and got away with RM2.2 million in cash yesterday.
In the 9.45am incident, the van and its four security guards stopped at a Petronas station in Bestari Jaya to fill up petrol. Little did they know the suspects had been tailgating them in a Proton Perdana V6.
At the station, the robbers stormed the van and overpowered the guards. One suspect managed to grab a guard's pumpgun.
The guards were left unharmed at the petrol station while the robbers got away with the van and all the money in it, and their car.
Forty minutes later, police found the security van dumped and
