– fought to keep bandit from harming her children
A Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, woman was shot twice and gun butted after she tried to fight off an armed bandit who had invaded her home and attacked her around 11.30 pm on Monday.
Injured and currently hospitalized is 36-year-old, Bibi Samaroo of Section ‘A’ Diamond. She is nursing two gunshot wounds; one in her breast and the other in her pelvic area, which damaged her liver, stomach and lungs. Both bullets have been removed.
Samaroo was robbed of a handbag containing $25,000 after the bandit shot her. However, she managed to pull off the bandanna the man was wearing to cover his face as he attacked her. Three bicycles along with the bandana were found at her home, suggesting, the family said, that Samaroo’s attackers had accomplices waiting in the yard.
Her husband, Amar Samaroo, said his wife had been discharged from hospital only a month ago after undergoing surgery and was on bed rest at the time of the incident.
The woman was attacked after she came face to face with the armed bandit as she was about to close a door leading to the patio, after hearing noises in her yard that alarmed her. Her husband said she told him she began to fight with the bandit because she was scared he would harm her two children who were at home. The bandit then fired two shots, but Samaroo turned her back causing the bullets to pass through her breast and pelvis.
Her husband, who was not at home when the incident occurred, said he received a call from his wife informing him that she had been shot. He said he had dropped his wife home earlier in the night with their two children and left to take care of some business.
He stated that while on the road he called her and told her to fry an egg for him as he would be home shortly. About 10 minutes after he had spoken to her, he said, she called him back saying that she had been shot.
Their toddler son, who witnessed the incident, then took the phone from his mother and told his father, “mommy got shot.”
The man said he raced home only to find his wife wounded. “While I was driving, I called the police and told them my wife got shot and when I reach there no police was there.”
The police later arrived in a taxi, stating that they had no vehicle, just as he was about to take his wife for medical attention.
The police are currently investigating the matter.
