A goldsmith at Rose Hall market was Friday robbed of GUY$5 million worth of jewellery and his employee was injured when robbers opened fire with a shotgun. 

Police Commissioner, Leroy Brumell said a party of policemen were up to late Friday still combing the Rose Hall seashore to where the bandits escaped on foot after the robbery. 

Goldsmith Vishwanath Seeram,39, said that around 1 PM he and his employee Kamal Gopaul, 25, were about to depart in his (Seeram) car when three men attacked them. 

Armed with a shotgun, one of them opened fire on the vehicle and almost immediately used the gun-butt and broke the right side window. The man then opened fire inside the vehicle and the pellets ricocheted, injuring Gopaul to his face. 

"The man say hand me the f--ing bag and me jus gee am," Seeram told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com ). "They start fire shot  more and people scatter and they getaway to the seaside," he said. 

The goldsmith said he suffered minor injuries. 

Brumell said Gopaul was hospitalized in a stable condition. 

Friday's robbery is the latest in which a jeweller or a goldsmith has been attacked and robbed. The largest haul was from Raj's jewellery store on Sheriff Street, Subryanville where GUY$100 million worth of gold and diamond jewellery was stolen last week.