Security guard Ramnaresh Khan is lucky to be alive; but he won’t be smiling about it anytime soon.
Khan, 69, of 138 Montrose, East Coast Demerara, was viciously attacked by three men on Saturday during an attempted robbery at the C&F plaza, on Regent Street. He is recovering at the Georgetown Public Hospital, nursing head wounds. All of his upper teeth were dislodged during the attack.
Struggling to speak, a weakened Khan told Stabroek News from his hospital bed that he was on watch in the adjoining yard of the plaza – which houses the Western Union and Senvia Money Transfer services, an internet café and several other businesses – when the attack occurred. Three men jumped over the locked gate and attempted to enter the building. He immediately told them to leave. “They grab me and started beating me,” he said. Khan related that the men armed themselves with concrete blocks that were scattered in the yard and they dealt him blows about the head and body. He said: “They knock out all me top teeth and bus me head.”
During the episode, one of the men also took his fortnight’s pay, $40,000, which he had on him at the time. Afterward, the men pushed him under cardboard in the compound. He was found there the next morning when a male employee of the internet café noticed his feet protruding from under the pile of cardboard. The man decided to check to see if he was sleeping but found his battered body lying in a pool of blood.
X-rays have confirmed that Khan suffered severe head injuries that require surgery. He has also undergone examinations to assess damage done to his left ear.
