A busi­ness ex­ec­u­tive and a se­nior of­fi­cial with the Unit­ed Na­tions High Com­mis­sion­er for Refugees (UN­HCR) were robbed while dri­ving through Curepe on Sun­day night.

Po­lice said the 38-year-old man and the 43-year-old woman were trav­el­ling in a sil­ver Hyundai Tuc­son on Fred­er­ick Street, Curepe, at around 8.50 pm when a white Nis­san Ti­i­da that was dri­ving in front of them stopped, block­ing their path.

Four masked men got out of the Ti­i­da, two of which had guns and or­dered them out of the car. The ban­dits stole two cell­phones, cash and a hand­bag, be­fore dri­ving off in their Tuc­son, fol­lowed by the Ti­i­da.

Po­lice were called in and found the Tuc­son aban­doned on Bam­boo Dri­ve, Champs Fleurs. The car was towed to the St Joseph po­lice sta­tion where en­quiries are con­tin­u­ing.