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Surujnie
Singh shot dead Shivsankar
Cremation
As a result
of the attack, a relative who had been on holiday in
Guyana booked an early flight back to Canada
after being traumatised
Armed
bandits terrorise
Houston family
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The
injured Ravi Boodhoo displaying the bullet wound
on his head.
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A
33-year-old man escaped with his life on Saturday night
when five
gunmen invaded his home and shot him
after placing a pillow over his head.
Injured
is Ravi Boodhoo, of 28 Back Street, Houston
Housing Scheme, Greater Georgetown.
Ravi
was shot in the head while in the bedroom of his
three-bedroom flat concrete home.
The
bullet only grazed his head, and he was treated at a
hospital and sent home.
His
mother, Mohandai Boodhoo, told the Chronicle that
around 22:30 h on New Year’s Eve she was sitting on
the patio with her sister, her son, and daughter-in-law,
granddaughter when five heavily masked and armed men
entered their yard after scaling a neighbour’s fence.
They took them all into the house and demanded money and
jewels.
The
59-year-old woman said the robbers began beating her
after she told them that they had no money.
“One
of them was going to bite off the rings on my fingers,
but I took them off and handed them to him,” she
recalled.
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Boodhoo
displaying her finger without her rings.
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The
woman said they then turned their attention to her
27-year-old daughter-in-law and took away her cell phone
and DVD player.
When
the 27-year-old woman told them that she had no cash
they threatened to kill her husband and began beating.
At this point they placed a pillow over his head and
shot him.
Boodhoo
said she thought her son was dead when she heard the
gunshot and made a dash for the door to escape, but was
hauled into the house by one of the bandits.
Boodhoo
told the Chronicle that the bandits then stormed into
another bedroom where her sick 50-year-old husband was
lying and put a gun to his head and asked for money. But
one of his accomplices said they must go. They said they
would take away Boodhoo’s nine-year-old granddaughter.
But
the family begged them not to and they left her alone.
The
robbers fled with about $90,000 in jewellery.
“We
are still reeling from shock and the incident has left
nine-year-old Sabrina tramautised,” Boodhoo said.
The
family believes that the bandits came from a
neighbouring village, as they seemed to be familiar with
the area.
The
police responded about two hours after the Saturday
night attack and recovered a warhead from the scene.
Tuesday,
January 03, 2006
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