A Tuschen taxi-driver was stabbed and left to die on a lonely road on Friday night at Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo.
Dead is Abdool Hassim, 48, of 2509 Tuschen Housing Scheme. The father of eight was working when he was attacked by bandits and robbed of cash and a cell phone. Hassim managed to escape the robbers and ran into another street for help. He collapsed in front of a home on Sheriff Street, Tuschen and shouted for help. However, the occupants of the house did not come out to help to him and he died at the side of the road.
A few minutes later, a resident who was returning home saw him lying on the road and when he checked him he was barely breathing. The man said he immediately called the police outpost in the neighbourhood and when they arrived the lifeless man was taken to the Leonora Cottage Hospital.
His car was found abandoned in another street in the community.
His reputed wife, Mala Mohabir said he was still clutching his car key, but his Nokia cell phone was missing.
There were bloodstains on the driver’s seat of the car and it appeared as though one of the assailants was sitting in the front seat of the white Nissan Sunny car.
Mohabir said she had retired to bed around 8 pm but was awakened around 11.30 pm when she heard the daughter, Narifa shouting for her.
She rushed outside and the daughter informed her that she heard Hassim “get stab up.” She said she got into the taxi that Narifa came in and they went to the scene.
The police were there conducting investigations and a small crowd had gathered. Mohabir said when she saw his body she started screaming and she later informed her brother via her cell phone and he came out to console her.
Mohabir believes that her husband had put up a struggle, because he had always told her that he would defend himself should he be attacked.
The distraught woman said she saw no reason why people would want to rob Hassim because he had an “old model car, not a shine ride and he din have money.”
She lamented too: “He left home at 6 o’clock to work. How much money can he make from that time? You nah see people get hire to kill him!”
Hassim’s daughter Malissa said her father “got seven stabs on his neck and he fall down right in front the house… he ask for help but no one didn’t help him. They left him on the road and he dead right there,” she lamented.
When Stabroek News spoke to the occupants of the house where Hassim had tried to get help, they said they knew nothing of it. However, residents in the street said they had heard the man calling out for help in front of the people’s yard. Most of them said they were too scared to go out and help.
