Shane Su­perville

A 20-year-old woman had cause to dri­ve her car in­to a ban­dit who tried to rob her and her fa­ther in Pe­nal on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said the woman and her 40-year-old fa­ther went to Fazal Av­enue, Pe­nal, at around 12 pm to sell their brown Kia Sportage to a man they met on­line.

Both fa­ther and daugh­ter met two men who they thought were the cus­tomers.

The fa­ther got out of the car to open the bon­net to show the men, as two oth­er gun­men ran out of near­by bush­es and an­nounced a rob­bery.

The daugh­ter who was still in the car saw the ban­dits and drove off, knock­ing down one of the ban­dits and crash­ing in­to a wall.

One of the ban­dits shot at the car hit­ting the right side of the bon­net.

The ban­dits ran to a Nis­san AD Wag­on that was parked near­by and drove off.

Pe­nal po­lice and of­fi­cers of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force were called in and searched for the ban­dits but didn't find any­one.

The white Nis­san AD Wag­on was found aban­doned on Sun­rees Trace, Pe­nal.