-after trying to stop robber
A young woman was last night hospitalised with her face disfigured and at least one broken limb after being robbed on Camp Street and dragged along by a car driven by the perpetrator when she gave chase.
Reports reaching Stabroek News identify the woman as Shena Mangar, an employee of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry.
According to a vendor who operates at Camp Street and North Road, the young woman was standing on North Road where persons usually wait for transportation traversing the East Coast Demerara corridor. The vendor, who chose to remain unnamed, said the woman’s cellular phone was snatched by a man who then ran into Camp Street where he had a car parked. “I see she run behind this person and the person had a car there and he run in the car in a speed and she go pon de bonnet and try to tell he stop. He drive off in a speed and she go underneath and the car drag she til to de corner suh,” the woman said pointing to Church Street.
The woman related that the victim was picked up by people in the crowd and taken to the hospital and that she later learnt from the police that Mangar’s “hand break and her face destroyed.”
The vendor relayed that there was no one else in the car when the man jumped into it. She and another woman who frequents the area said that they had noticed the same car parked on the spot before with someone inside just sitting there.
Stabroek News visited the hospital last night where Mangar’s anxious family, friends and colleagues had gathered and observed her being transported under sedation and on oxygen to a private city hospital.
Relatives and colleagues were unwilling to speak about the incident and up to news time there was no word from the police on whether the man had been caught.
Meanwhile, at least four people were injured in an accident yesterday afternoon at Mahaicony when the driver of a car heading to Berbice apparently lost control of the vehicle resulting in injuries to three of his passengers and a pedestrian.
Shakeeela Khan, mother of Shameela, 22, said she was told that her daughter and her husband Shafeek Mohamed, 23, were heading to their home in Fyrish, Corentyne from the city when the accident occurred.
Khan said her daughter received injuries to her head and hand but suffered no broken bones while Mohamed sustained a broken arm and cuts. An elderly woman who was also a passenger in the car suffered a head injury.
The pedestrian, Gobin Singh, 47, of Mahaicony said x-rays revealed that his right leg was broken in two places. The man said he was on the way to a shop in his area. “I was walking on the walkway, Mahaicony has a walkway. He was going east, I was going west so I see he come over and thought he coming to de supermarket. He hit me and he keep travellin’ a far way,” Singh recalled.
He said it appeared as though the driver tried to get away after the vehicle stopped but the police pulled up at the same time and took him into custody.
And even as the hospital staff scrambled to deal with the accident victims and the more than a dozen others waiting in the emergency room, an army ambulance arrived with a patient who Stabroek News learnt had been stabbed in the abdomen.
According to a source, the man identified as Lance Corporal Randy Bradshaw was stabbed by another army rank during a “sport” in Camp Ayanganna.
The source relayed that the assailant and a relative of Bradshaw were involved in an altercation when he intervened and was stabbed with an ice pick.
Reports say the man ran from the back of the army compound to the medical centre to seek aid while his attacker took off. Up to news time there was no word on whether that individual had been apprehended.
