A route 32 minibus driver is now hospitalised after he was shot to his back just before midday yesterday at Flour Mill Public Road, Eccles, East Bank Demerara, by two men who posed as passengers.
Injured is Feroze Ghani, 48, of Ruby, East Bank Esse-quibo, who is currently being monitored at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Male Surgical Ward. He is due to undergo surgery to remove a bullet which is lodged in the region of his lungs.
According to a police statement, at about 11.45 am yesterday, two men, one of whom was armed with a gun, held up Ghani, his conductor Raphael Ghani, 27, and passenger Dhanmattie Ramana, 46, of New Road, Essequibo Coast. The two perpetrators, who had joined the