A bandit died yesterday after being fatally chopped in the Port Mourant Market after he and an accomplice had robbed a goldsmith.
The police last night identified the dead bandit as 18-year-old Parmanand Pertab called `Mikey’. The robbery occurred at about 9.15 am.
Initial investigations revealed that the businessman, 31, went to his jewellery store at about 7:30 am. At about 9:15 am, he was pounced upon by the bandits while attending to customers. Pertab had a cutlass and his accomplice had a gun. The businessman’s employee was injured after he was attacked with the cutlass.