Bandits terrorise Albouystown
mom, beat children
-escape with jewellery
and household articles
An Albouystown mother and her family were forced to endure several minutes of terror at the hands of three masked and armed bandits who broke into their home at around 04:30 hrs yesterday.
Maltie Nageer Rasul, of Punt Trench Dam, Albouystown, was forced to hand over an estimated $220,000 in jewellery and household appliances after the gunmen beat her sons, aged 17 and 18, and threatened to harm her 10-year-old daughter.
The men, who broke into the two-bedroom home via a window, also carted off a computer, a DVD and play station, two CD players, a microwave, blender and several compact discs.
A still tramautised Rasul said that the men first entered the room where her two sons were sleeping.
They first awoke 18-year-old Youdishtir by placing a gun to his head.
Then they awoke 17-year-old Lomeharshan, and chopped the youth on the leg and struck him on the head after he screamed out in fear.
They then took the brothers to their mother's room, where she was sleeping with her ten-year-old daughter, Zara.
Mrs. Rasul was rudely awakened to see three men with kerchiefs covering their features by her bedside.
“I asked them what they want and they say ‘money and jewellery,” she recalled.
“I said that I didn't have anything and they said that I was lying and started to tumble up the house.”
While one man remained with her daughter and two sons, who were ordered to lie under her bed, the other two took Rasul to the kitchen, where they attempted to remove her clothing.
She pleaded with the men to spare her and they took her back to her bedroom, where they attempted to forcibly remove two gold rings from her ten-year-old daughter's fingers.
Rasul herself took the rings off the terrified girl's fingers, and then handed over her jewellery to the bandits.
The men then gathered up other valuables from the house before escaping on foot. The attack is the second violent robbery in Albouystown in recent days.
Thursday, February 24, 2005