Two persons had to be treated at the Fort Wellington Hospital on Saturday after they were attacked around 10:45 pm in front of a wedding house at Tempe Village, West Coast Berbice.

The men, Basdeo Narine, 50, and Naresh Surajbali, 49, both of Plantation Hope Housing Scheme at Bath sustained injuries from broken bottles to their face and head respectively. They were also beaten about their bodies.

Narine told Stabroek News that he was drinking with friends at the wedding house when he noticed two strange persons sitting on his car which was parked on the road.

In the company of Surajbali he went out to investigate who the persons were. As he approached the men he told them, “Please come off my car because if it damage who gon pay for it.”

Using expletives, the men jumped off the car and dealt him several blows to his face and about his body with a bottle. Narine said he managed to “grip him and threw him to the ground.”

He then let loose of his attacker and ran into the yard but a group of young men who were apparently friends of the ones who were sitting on his car cornered Surajbali and beat him “mercilessly.”

Narine said he recognized one of the men from the group as the person who was supposed to have gotten married to his daughter. Narine had broken off the relationship and after that he had received several threatening text messages.

An off-duty police officer who was in the vicinity tried to intervene to get the men to stop their abusive behaviour and he suffered a slash to his right hand. He too had to be treated at the hospital.