Three men were robbed of a quan­ti­ty of cash and oth­er valu­ables on Wednes­day in Port-of-Spain, when they went to trans­act the pur­chase of a ve­hi­cle which had been ad­ver­tised on Face­book Mar­ket­place.

The vic­tims had re­port­ed­ly gone to meet a man at East­ern Boys’ Pri­ma­ry School, George Street, around 4.30 pm re­gard­ing a Nis­san B15 which had been ad­ver­tised for sale.

When they ar­rived, five male sus­pects al­leged­ly sur­round­ed the men’s car and in­struct­ed them to dri­ve to a car park on the west­ern side of the school.

There, the men, three of whom were armed with guns, were joined by four ad­di­tion­al sus­pects who an­nounced it was a hold-up.

The vic­tims in­clud­ed a 52-year-old and a 21-year-old, both of South Oropouche, and a 25-year-old of Trinci­ty.

They were re­lieved of cell­phones, wal­lets con­tain­ing iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, deb­it and cred­it cards and $14,000 in cash.

The sus­pects then fled the scene by run­ning east in­to the George Street Apart­ment Com­plex where they dis­ap­peared in dif­fer­ent di­rec­tions.