-during robbery attempt
In a daring attempted robbery, gunmen yesterday afternoon barged into the office of a city doctor, hit him several times to the head and left those who witnessed the violent display terrified.
Dr. Revendra Shivanand, who operates a clinic at Thomas Street, Georgetown, was being treated at the Prashad’s Hospital last evening. His wife told Stabroek News that he was gun-butted to the head several times and sustained three wounds as a result. “He is in stable condition though,” she reported.
Two men with guns, she said, barged into her husband’s office some time around 4pm. She was later informed that there were more men in a car waiting on the street for their two accomplices inside. “We had contractors working on the front of the building and after an alarm was raised we think that they [the gunmen] became afraid and fled,” Mrs Shivanand related.
The attackers, according to her, were unable to escape with any valuables. The matter was immediately reported to police, she said.
An employee, who was standing at the entrance of the clinic, reiterated much of what was related by the doctor’s wife and supported her statement about the gunmen being unable to steal anything. “I heard a gunshot,” a woman who was in the vicinity at the time told this newspaper.
A few minutes after hearing the sound, she recalled, Dr. Shivanand drove by and she could see that there was blood dripping down the side of his head.
Stabroek News was told that the contractors who were working on the front of the building did not realise that gunmen had invaded the place until they heard the “commotion.” The two men, this newspaper learnt, calmly walked into the compound, headed straight for the clinic’s door and stepped inside.
The men then revealed their firearms and ordered the employees to lay face-down on the floor. Two patients were also in the clinic at the time.
One of the armed men then turned his attention to the doctor and demanded cash. This newspaper was reliably informed that Dr. Shivanand tried to resist the gunman and during the scuffle that followed a round was discharged. He was then hit several times to the head by the gunman.
