A 62-year-old businessman of Yakusari North, Black Bush Polder (BBP) sustained gunshot injuries to his foot when four armed bandits invaded his home around 7:20 last evening.
Sarjoodin “Jango” Jewdhan, the owner of a gas station and a liquor restaurant and bar was rushed to the Mibicuri Hospital in BBP and then transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
His daughter, Parbattie Jewdhan who lives two houses away told Stabroek News last evening that the house was ransacked but she is not sure what was missing.
She said her father had just closed up his business and was sitting on a bench outside of the kitchen in the bottom flat when the bandits pounced on him. He apparently resisted the bandits resulting in them firing the shot at him. They proceeded to the upper flat where her mother, Sursattie Jewdhan, 60, was.
Parbattie said the couple’s 10-year-old grand-daughter who lives with them had gone to her house after attending the mandir.
According to her she heard the gunshot but did not realize her parents were being attacked and robbed.
However, her brother who also lives nearby hurried over to their parents’ house and rushed him to the hospital.
She said by the time she got to the scene they were already leaving in the car. He also seemed to have bled profusely from the wounds as there was a pool of blood on the ground.
Parbattie said she learnt that the bandits came from the yard because and felt that they must have been hiding there until a few customers who were in the bar left.
Meanwhile, a woman said she and a few friends were at a shop when she heard what sounded like gunshots. She said she that told them to get into her car and she was driving in the direction where the sound came from.
Just then she saw a man without a shirt running towards her car and holding onto his pants waist. His pants also appeared to be wet. She said although she did not recognize the man she asked him “wah happen there just now budday?”
She said the man just stared at her and did not answer and an occupant of the car advised her to “turn back” and she did. But the man blocked her path forcing her to stop and held a gun to her head.
The woman said she bent her head down and prayed and after about two minutes the man calmly walked away and escaped into a farm.
She said a vehicle belonging to the community policing group gave chase but the man had already disappeared. Residents also reportedly saw the three other men running in different directions.