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A 27-year-old woman who was trying to save her sister from being attacked ended up being badly chopped on her head and left hand around 1:30 pm yesterday at Number 29 Village.

Monica Beaton, of Number 50 Village, Corentyne was rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital and was subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital after receiving treatment for her wounds.

Reports are that her wrist was almost severed during the attack.

Her condition was listed as stable. A brother who was having an ongoing dispute with her sister has since been taken into custody.

Beaton told Stabroek News yesterday that on Monday she had gone to the home where her two older sisters and brother reside to attend a relative’s funeral in the village scheduled for yesterday.

She said her unemployed brother had a grievance with one of her sisters and had threatened to attack her. Her sister had even telephoned her to tell her about the problems with her brother.

At the time of the attack Beaton and her sisters were in a bedroom “trying on clothes to wear to the funeral” when she saw her brother approaching with a cutlass.

She tried to prevent her brother from attacking their sister by bracing the door and trying to close it.

At one stage the brother even tried to climb into the room but he did not succeed. He then tried to push open the door again but Beaton continued to brace it.

He became angry and started to fire chops resulting in her being wounded. She and her sister started to “holler for murder.” She bled profusely from the injuries.

She said she jumped onto the bed and grabbed a sheet and wrapped the wounds in an effort to stop the bleeding.

She said their shouting alerted the neighbours who rushed over but they did not go upstairs where the chopping was taking place. By then her brother calmly walked away with the cutlass in hand before being caught.

The woman, a pig farmer/butcher was thankful that the “extension” in her hair saved her from suffering more severe injuries.