Chinese restaurant ‘Seetos’ robbed @ gunpoint

Employees and customers had a scare of their lives at the Seetos Chinese Restaurant and Bar‎ located in the Mill Mall on Wickham’s Cay I on Saturday night, August 22, 2015 when two armed bandits stormed the business place. Photo: VINO

According to an employee at the restaurant, it was sometime around 10:30pm on August 22, 2015 when she was preparing to close for the night that two men, with their faces masked and only their eyes visible, pounced on her demanding money. Photo: uppercumberlandnow.com

WICKHAM'S CAY I, Tortola, VI - Employees and customers had a scare of their lives at the Seetos Chinese Restaurant and Bar‎ located in the Mill Mall on Wickham’s Cay I on Saturday night, August 22, 2015 when two armed bandits stormed the business place.

According to one of the employees present at the restaurant, Sue, it was sometime around 10:30pm when she was preparing to close for the night that two men, with their faces masked and only their eyes visible, pounced on her demanding money.
"One say give me all deh money, all deh money," Sue related. She said as she realised she was about to be robbed and aware that there were at least two customers on the outside of the restaurant, she decided to scream for help.
"I screamed so the customers could hear me," she recalled.
Sue said that following her screams one of her co-workers who was at the back of the restaurant, another Chinese national, came out to see what was happening when one of the bandits grabbed hold of him. At that point she ran outside but one of the gunmen followed her.
"I didn't want he hear me so I say call police, call police but he hear me and asked who call police? Who call police?" she said.
According to Sue, there was a third employee on the outside of the restaurant who she said saw the two men entering the store but thought they were customers. "He, the other guy who working with me saw the men when they came in. They came from the [Noel Lloyd Positive Action Movement] park side."
She said that while the one bandit engaged her on the outside the other remained inside holding the one employee hostage and relieved him of all the cash that was in the restaurant at the time.
The robbers both fled the scene after learning that the police was called. "Police came about 10 minutes but they (bandits) run and gone. They went to the park area," Sue told Virgin Islands News Online.
Up to press time the incident was not confirmed by the Public Relations Department of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF). However, Police Information Officer Diane Drayton promised to respond to this news site’s request for confirmation later this morning August 24, 2015.