Man shot and robbed in Newtown

Mohammed Nageer at the hospital last night

A  man was last evening robbed at gunpoint and shot to the leg mere minutes after worshipping at the First Assemblies of God Church.

Mohammed Nageer, aged 39, had just disembarked a minibus at the corner of Lamaha Street and Vlissengen Road when three armed young men rode up on bicycles.

Speaking to this newspaper as he was wheeled out of the Georgetown Public Hospital’s X-Ray department,