A 69-year-old market vendor was assaulted and robbed by two bandits armed with a gun as she and her husband were opening their stall for business yesterday morning at the Bourda Market.
This is the second time that Totaram Singh and his wife Rookmati Singh have
been robbed in less than three weeks.
The couple believe that their tobacco and confectionery business is being targeted.
Yesterday morning at 8.15, Rookmati said, she was standing at the side of her stall as her husband opened the door. “Me just feel me get a hit and me pitch and they gone with me bag,” Rookmati recalled.
Rookmati’s right eye was swollen to a slit with blotchy spots and bruises. “I turn around and see me wife on the ground a man with a gun tell me don’t talk, don’t make no noise,” Singh said.
The bag the men took off with was Rookmati’s handbag which contained some $300,000, a cell phone, keys to their home and other documents.
On September 18, someone broke into their stall and stole some $1.3 million in goods, Singh said. The matter was reported to the Alberttown Police Station. The couple suspect that the persons who robbed them yesterday were the same person who broke into their store in September.
The couple’s stall is located at the back of the market right next to the Bourda Street exit.
Singh said that his wife has difficulty walking and since she was usually at home alone he decided to let her accompany him to the market, “Now she gun gah stay at home,” he said.
