A 14-year-old girl has fought a
clique of armed-robbers with a machete who went into a shop and threatened and
steal from her mum.
According to details privy to
OccupyGh.com, the incident took place in the neighborhood of Rafael Uribe Uribe
in Bogota, the capital city of Colombia, on Thursday, February 4, when a biker
stopped by a stationery shop and forced entry at 4 am.
The owner’s two daughters – aged
two and 14 – were inside the premises at the time of the attempted raid. CCTV
footage inside the shop shows a man dressed in a black outfit and wearing a
black helmet, walking into the back of the shop where the cash register is at. The
brave teenage girl is seen confronting the robber as she threatens him to back
off with a machete. She brandishes the blade in the air and pushes the man out
to the front of the shop.
Another robber appears to step
in to help out, but she chased them away and the duo fled the scene on their
motorbikes. According to the report, the suspects shot the girl’s mother when
they left the shop.
The mum was treated at a
hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The mum told local broadcaster
Noticias Caracol that she tried to block the robber’s path by standing in front
of the entrance gate but was unsuccessful.
“While I was pushing him, she was wielding the
machete at him and he was backing away,” the mum said. The girl added that “it
is neither the first nor the second time” that they have tried to rob her
mother’s shop. “I already had it in my head that if anything happened,” the
girl said. “I would take the machete and hit them.”
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