(Kaieteur News) – Another mining operation in Region Seven was reportedly targeted by heavily armed gunmen on Sunday, less than a week after bandits carried out a multi-million-dollar robbery against two Brazilian miners in the same area.

Kaieteur News has received information from a reliable source that the latest attack occurred in the Sewanda Backdam area, where armed robbers struck on June 15 and escaped with more than 45 ounces of raw gold, cash, jewellery, ATVs and other valuables worth approximately $44.6 million.

Efforts to contact police in the region for official confirmation of Sunday’s incident were unsuccessful up to press time. However, information reaching this publication indicates that the latest robbery occurred in the same area as the earlier attack.