Bandits in WASA gear rob Couva woman outside her home

A 69-year-old Cou­va woman was robbed out­side her home by two men wear­ing WASA-brand­ed cloth­ing on Tues­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the woman was dri­ving in­to the dri­ve­way of her Preysal Vil­lage home around 9.50 am when she saw two men run­ning to­wards her. One of them opened the dri­ver’s side door and grabbed her hand­bag, which con­tained her cell­phone, bank cards, TT $2,000 and US $1,000.

The sus­pects, who were wear­ing WASA po­lo shirts and hard hats, got in­to a beige car parked near­by and es­caped. Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.