The Hussain family, which was attacked and robbed at gunpoint at their Lot 62 Brehaspat Street, No. 2 Village, East Canje, Berbice residence, is now breathing a collective air of relief as Angela Hussain, 39 years, the matriarch of the family is out of the danger zone and is speedily recovering from a gunshot wound to the head.
The woman, who up until yesterday was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the New Amsterdam Hospital has been transferred to the hospital’s female ward and is being monitored. She is expected to be discharged from the hospital in a matter of days. The police have since held several of the men for questioning.
Hussain was shot in the head at point blank range by one of five armed bandits who invaded her home and demanded cash and jewellery. Fortunately, the bullet only managed to graze the right side of her head, from the temple to the ear, before making a clean exit.
The woman, who operates a grocery and parlour in the lower flat of her two-storey house, was at the time of the robbery, preparing to close her shop for the day. Mere minutes before the closing time, the men barged into the yard, kicked in the door of the shop and proceeded to terrorise Hussain, her husband and three children who were home at the time.
According to reports, Hussain handed over the day’s earnings to the three bandits who were ransacking the house while the remaining two kept watch outside and periodically fired shots into the air to deter neighbours from coming to the family’s rescue. After handing over an undisclosed sum of money, to the criminals, Hussain was forced to watch helplessly as one of the bandits gun-butted her husband several times in the head to force them to hand over their