Three pen­sion­ers, a house­wife and a me­chan­ic were among sev­en peo­ple ter­rorised by armed ban­dits as they spent the day on La Ruf­fin Beach, Moru­ga, on Sun­day.

Po­lice said the at­tack­ers held up their vic­tims at gun­point and kicked and cuffed sev­er­al of them as they were robbed of per­son­al pos­ses­sions.

Eye­wit­ness­es re­port­ed see­ing the sus­pects at the beach ear­li­er and be­lieved they were search­ing for po­ten­tial vic­tims then.

Po­lice said around 1.30 pm, Bas­deo Silochan, 65, of Rochard Dou­glas Road, Bar­rack­pore; Ja­madaram Ramkissoon, 66, of Fon­rose Vil­lage, Poole, Rio Claro; De­oku­mar Gun­ness, 68, and Dru­patee Gun­ness, 60, both of St An­toine Road, Princes Town; 38-year-old me­chan­ic Ram­cha­ran Khem­raj, of Cun­jal Road, Bar­rack­pore; Mol­lisia Ram­baran, 33, of St Mary's Vil­lage, Moru­ga; and 38-year-old house­wife Kilo­utie See­lochan, of St Mary's Vil­lage, Moru­ga, were lim­ing on the beach when they were ap­proached by the ban­dits.

The ban­dits first moved in on Silochan and cuffed him in the head be­fore rob­bing him of $400 in cash. They then robbed Ramkissoon and Khem­raj of $400 each and De­oku­mar Gun­ness of $250 and took two cell­phones val­ued at $600 from Dru­patee Gun­ness.

They then re­lieved See­lochan of a gold chain, val­ued at $400, and a $250 wrist­watch and took a cell­phone val­ued at $100 and $100 cash from Ram­baran.

The men then ran in­to near­by bush­es and es­caped. Up to yes­ter­day, po­lice were still search­ing for the ban­dits.