An el­der­ly Cunu­pia cou­ple was tied up and robbed by four ban­dits at gun­point on yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The 71-year-old woman and her 74-year-old hus­band, who did not want to be named, told the T&T Guardian the ban­dits stormed their Munroe Road home around 7 am. The men placed a gun to their heads, tied them up in a bed­room and ran­sacked the place. They stole $4000, bot­tles of liquor, gold jew­el­ry, a tele­vi­sion and es­caped in the fam­i­ly’s sil­ver-grey Nis­san Ti­i­da li­censed PDA 3086.

How­ev­er, they were more thank­ful that the woman’s 93-year-old moth­er did not have to ex­pe­ri­ence the or­deal. The woman, who is wheel­chair-bound, was in the bath­room and was left alone by the men.

Re­count­ing her ex­pe­ri­ence, the 71-year-old woman, who said she was still in shock and very afraid, said she had just fin­ished say­ing her morn­ing prayers and had walked in­to the kitchen area to knead flour.

“I just look up while knead­ing the flour and I saw some­one jump the gate. I start­ed to shout ‘Who’s dat, who’s dat’ and be­fore I know it two men ran in­to the kitchen and one of them put a gun to my head and said it was a hold-up. I scream out and my hus­band came out from a room and the man put the gun to his head too.

“They took us in a bed­room and ripped a table­cloth I had on the bed and tied us up but it wasn’t tight, maybe it was slack enough for us to wig­gle out of it and free our­selves af­ter they leave.”

She said her moth­er called out to them af­ter she fin­ished tak­ing her show­er.

“They prob­a­bly no­ticed her wheel­chair in the bath­room and knew that she couldn’t walk, that’s why they left her alone.”

The woman said one of the men said: “All yuh In­di­an does have jew­el­ry and mon­ey. Where it is? I told him I didn’t have that, it had a ring, watch and a chain on the dress­er and he went and take it.

“They ran­sacked the en­tire house, turn over my bag and my moth­er’s hand­bag and take all the mon­ey we had. They then tell my hus­band to give them the key for the car. They load up every­thing in the car and take the re­mote and dri­ve out like if it was my hus­band dri­ving out.”

She said a rel­a­tive who lives right next door no­ticed the car leav­ing but did not have a clue what was hap­pen­ing.

The woman said he and her hus­band freed them­selves and called the po­lice.

“I thanked God that we weren’t beat­en or shot or one of us killed,” she said.

She said one of the men was on his cell­phone through­out the or­deal.

“Like who­ev­er he was talk­ing to was telling them what to do and to hur­ry up.”

The woman said a team of po­lice of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to their re­port about 30 min­utes lat­er.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on the where­abouts of the ve­hi­cle or the in­trud­ers is asked to call the po­lice at 482-GARY, 555, 999, 800 TIPS, the Cunu­pia Po­lice Sta­tion or the near­est po­lice sta­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.