A Linden youth is nursing several chops about his body at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was attacked by three men who are still at large.
Trevor Cummings, 19, of Poker Street, Wismar had a bandaged hand which was severely chopped, as well as other wounds on his shoulder and back.
Speaking to Stabroek News from his hospital bed, Cummings said he was walking on the road around 10 am last Wednesday when a vehicle approached and stopped next to him. The men just exited and ambushed him, Cummings recalled, while he explained that a scuffle ensued which led to them chopping him.
However, Cummings managed to escape further blows as he outran his attackers before he was rescued by an approaching police patrol.
The injured man said that the police transported him to the Linden Hospital Complex but he was subsequently transferred to the GPH where he remains admitted.
The men who attacked him are from Berbice, Cummings said, noting that the police have not yet been able to arrest anyone, although the registration number of the vehicle which the men used to escape was given to the police.
A relative said the police were waiting for Cummings to be discharged from the hospital to take a statement from him.
According to Cummings’ mother, her son had a grievance with a relative of one of the men who attacked him but the other two men are not known to him. The mother said the issue involving the man and her son is currently under probe by the police.
