A woman and her mother are now hospitalised after they were brutally chopped by her abusive ex-husband, who later committed suicide.
Injured in the attack, which occurred on Thursday evening, were Savitree Sankumar and her 66-year old mother, Rookmin, both of Parika, East Bank Essequibo, while their attacker Sewsarran Sankumar, 55, succumbed at the Leonora Diagnostic Centre after he ingested a poisonous substance.
Speaking from her hospital bed in the Surgical Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital, Savitree told Stabroek News that