Two bandits armed with guns yesterday morning robbed an overseas-based Guyanese and her relatives in the Upper Corentyne Area.
Shamwattie Naipaul, 58, an overseas-based Guyanese of Number 73 Village, Corentyne, explained that she along with several other relatives returned to Guyana for her brother’s funeral.
On Sunday evening, after attending the wake, she asked her son, also an overseas-based Guyanese, to drop her home along with a few others where they had something to eat and retired to bed.
Around 1.50 am yesterday, the two bandits broke into her house and carried out their attack.
Naipaul said, “All of a sudden I feel somebody pull my ring out of my finger and when I open my eyes he was right there with a gun on my head and the other one stand up that way over my cousin head”, she relayed.
According to her, both perpetrators, who were heavily masked and armed with guns, ordered them to be quiet and to hand over “the money”.
She added, that after she said that she did not have any money the bandit standing over her told her that she should hand over the money before he does something to her.
After removing all of her jewellery, the men then ransacked the entire house.
They carted off one gold chain valued $70,000, two gold rings valued $80,000, one Samsung cellphone valued $40,000, one Clark’s sneakers valued $16,000 and one backpack valued $4,000.
The men also escaped with one white (old model) Fielder wagon PTT 864.
Based on information gathered, while the perpetrators were escaping, a relative returned home with the car and after noticing the bandits he ran and left the keys in the ignition resulting in the bandits seizing it.
Yesterday afternoon, the police located the vehicle a few villages away, but were still on the hunt for the perpetrators.
