Daring gunmen chased teachers and robbed students as part of a daylight robbery at the the McIntosh Memorial Primary School in Williamsfield, Manchester, yesterday.

The group of gunmen also reportedly made off with an undetermined sum of money, laptop computers and other items.

Reports are that about 1:30 p.m., the armed men entered the school compound and went to a number of classrooms where teachers and students were engaging in summer-school activities.

THE STAR heard that two teachers who grabbed their handbags and tried to escape from the thieves were chased. It is said that the females had to drop their bags in order to prevent the men from continuing the chase.

Head of the Manchester police, Superintendent Lascelles Taylor, though noting he was not familiar with all the details, confirmed the incident.

"The men chased the teachers and they had to let go off their handbags while the men took them and escaped into bushes. The police were called but the men were not found," Taylor said.

This makes the second time in two months that the school has been robbed. A little over a month ago thieves broke into the canteen and stole more than $60,000 worth of food items.