A 60-year-old resident of Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice, sustained severe chops about his body when four armed, masked bandits attacked him around 6.30 pm on Sunday and terrorized his daughters.
Dilip Narine, a retired GuySuCo worker is now a patient in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). His daughter, Sunita, 29, told Stabroek News that he had to undergo surgery yesterday for his left leg that was almost amputated.
The bandits, who were clad in black and wore long-sleeve tops, escaped with $40,000. Narine also received chop wounds to his left hand, head, forehead and abdomen and was first rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital before being transferred to the GPH.
She recalled that her father had gone to the back of the yard to loose the dog when he was confronted by the four men who apparently gained access over the side fence.
The men demanded that he handed over “everything you got” but he responded that he did not have anything. They then dealt him the chops and he tried to fight back. He also begged them to spare his life. After he was chopped he ran to the front of the yard and collapsed.
Her father related that he challenged the bandits because he was trying to protect her and her younger sister, Amrita, 24. They were at the time watching television in the lower flat.
They heard their father hollering and when they looked out they noticed that he was covered in blood and they started to scream.
Amrita tried to run to her father’s assistance but the bandits pushed her back into the house and placed the cutlass to her neck and demanded valuables. She too responded that she did not have anything.
Sunita, meanwhile, fled up the stairs and managed to lock herself in a bedroom. Two of the bandits followed her and tried but they failed to kick open the bedroom door.
They then entered another bedroom, where she had three handbags which contained the cash, her passport, identification card and other important documents, which they took.
Meantime, Sunita had jumped out the bedroom window onto a shed, from where she started to scream for help. After she noticed the bandits leaving she crawled back in the bedroom and used her cell phone to call the police, but the neighbours had already called.
She was told that police officers were on their way. They arrived at the scene about half an hour later and conducted searches and investigations.
Her sister, Leta Narine, 28, told this newspaper that she and her mother, Geno Narine, were away at the church at the time of the robbery.
They were on their way home when a resident rode up on a bicycle and told them of the incident. Just then a neighbour’s car that was taking Dilip Narine to the hospital drove up and they got in and accompanied him there.
