The police are searching for two men who mutilated a pork-knocker during a cutlass attack at Balamani Backdam, Cuyuni River.
Derwin Grant, 38, was attacked at about 9.30 pm on Saturday and four of his fingers were severed.
According to a Guyana Police Force release, Grant had earlier visited a shop at Balamani Backdam, where he took several alcoholic beverages and paid with 1 pennyweight of raw gold, equivalent to $15,000, before leaving his change behind.
Grant alleged that on Saturday at about 9.30 pm he went to the shop and when asked to make payments indicated that he was still owed by the shop.
As a result of his response, an exchange of words occurred before he left the shop.
The police said while he was on the road the two suspects attacked him from behind and dealt him several chops about his body with a cutlass, causing him to suffer lacerations to his right shoulder, a laceration to his right hand, which severed four fingers, and two deep lacerations to his left hand and right knee.
The victim was left lying on the road with injuries about his body before the suspects returned, picked him up and took him to Sand Hill Landing where they left him at Akeem’s shop.
Grant was later transported to the Bartica Hospital, where he was admitted in a serious condition.
