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An 80-year-old American retiree was robbed while seated in her car at Malabar on Monday afternoon.
Police said that around 2.45 p.m. the woman was seated with her husband in the passenger seat of their vehicle in the car park of Vulcan Mufflers, O’Meara Industrial Estate, Malabar, when two unknown men approached from either side and announced a robbery.
The suspects grabbed the victim’s handbag. During the struggle, the bag strap broke, cutting the victim’s finger. The assailants then fled with the handbag containing $9,000 in cash, debit and credit cards, and other personal documents. They escaped in a white Nissan AD Wagon.
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