A 74-year-old Port Mourant, Corentyne grandmother was left bloodied on Friday when armed bandits attacked her family at their home.
The attack was carried out just before 9 pm by three masked men, who were armed with a gun, two cutlasses and a crowbar.
They were only able to escape with three cellular phones after the injured woman, Drupattie Harpaul, also known as ‘Doreen,’ of Lot 35 Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant, started to scream for help and alerted neighbours, who responded.
Lena Harpaul, 17, a student at the University of Guyana’s Tain Campus, explained that she had returned from classes and was in the lower flat of the house when the three bandits launched the attack.
She said her parents were upstairs while her grandmother was outside in the hammock. She recalled two bandits rushing inside to where she was sitting, while the third accosted her grandmother outside. She said the men inside were yelling at her father, demanding cash and jewellery, while he indicated to them that he did not have any money, she noted.
However, the armed and masked bandits were forced to make a hasty retreat after Drupattie, despite being hit to the head with an iron bar by her assailant, continuously screamed for help.
Drupattie told this newspaper that the man had placed a gun to her neck and ordered her to hand over cash. “He say, ‘Come, go in a house! Go in a house.’ And me tell am me na go in the house, me na go in no house and he say na scream or he go shoot me and kill me and then me still holla and when me holla he knock me with a iron in me head,” the senior recounted.
After being hit, she started to bleed immediately. “Me say boy wah you a knock me fa and me a wipe out the blood, wipe out the blood because me whole skin start fa soak in blood,” she noted, while adding that the bandit then left her and rushed inside while she ran to the fence and started to scream for help.
The bandit alerted his accomplices and they all fled, while Drupattie was rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital, where she was treated for a cut to her head. As of yesterday afternoon she was home recovering from the attack.
Police have launched an investigation.
