A cutlass attack at Kimbia Village, Upper Berbice River during the wee hours of yesterday has left one man dead and a teenager with a severed wrist and serious neck injury.
Dead is Selman Khan, 23, of Wiruni, Upper Berbice River who sustained chop wounds on his neck, face and about his body. His nephew, Shane Osborne, 18, is presently hospitalized at the New Amsterdam Public Hos-pital after one of his wrists was severed. He also sustained a wound to his neck.
Osborne’s father, Vanwest Osborne, a Coun-cillor for the Wiruni Village, explained, that his son and cousin (Khan) left home to head to nearby Kimbia Village to attend a reception for a wedding on Sunday.
According to the father, who was in New Amsterdam at the time of the attack, he received a message from a boat operator around 3.15 am yesterday that his son had been badly injured. “He call and tell me my son hand get chop out and they bringing him out.”
Osborne noted that he then tried to find out exactly what transpired between the attacker and his relatives when he was told that late Sunday evening, Khan and Osborne left the reception and headed to a nearby “drinking place.”
However, after the two men spent some time at that location, there were two men present who began arguing over the ownership of a cutlass. Osborne said, he was told that his son chimed in and said that the cutlass cannot belong to both of them “and my son Shane turn and say ‘you think me is them boys who you does deh slapping up, slapping up’ and the boy (attacker) chuck he (son) up and he (son) fall into the water and then the boy (attacker) start the chopping.”
According to the father, he was told that after his son began screaming, Khan intervened and then he was also brutally and fatally chopped.
An emotional Osborne noted that his son is not any sort of a troublemaker, as he would always caution him to be mindful of how he carries himself.
The man is calling on the police to conduct a thorough investigation, “I just want justice”, he said yesterday.
As of yesterday afternoon no arrest had been made.
