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As a result of the attack, a relative who had been on holiday in Guyana booked an early flight back to Canada after being traumatised Armed bandits terrorise Houston family
Injured
is Ravi Boodhoo, of 28 Back Street, Houston Housing Scheme,
Greater Georgetown. Ravi
was shot in the head while in the bedroom of his three-bedroom flat
concrete home. The
bullet only grazed his head, and he was treated at a hospital and sent
home. His
mother, Mohandai Boodhoo, told the Chronicle that around 22:30
h on New Year’s Eve she was sitting on the patio with her sister,
her son, and daughter-in-law, granddaughter when five heavily masked
and armed men entered their yard after scaling a neighbour’s fence.
They took them all into the house and demanded money and jewels. The
59-year-old woman said the robbers began beating her after she told
them that they had no money. “One
of them was going to bite off the rings on my fingers, but I took them
off and handed them to him,” she recalled.
When
the 27-year-old woman told them that she had no cash they threatened
to kill her husband and began beating. At this point they placed a
pillow over his head and shot him. Boodhoo
said she thought her son was dead when she heard the gunshot and made
a dash for the door to escape, but was hauled into the house by one of
the bandits. Boodhoo
told the Chronicle that the bandits then stormed into another bedroom
where her sick 50-year-old husband was lying and put a gun to his head
and asked for money. But one of his accomplices said they must go.
They said they would take away Boodhoo’s nine-year-old
granddaughter. But
the family begged them not to and they left her alone. The
robbers fled with about $90,000 in jewellery. “We
are still reeling from shock and the incident has left nine-year-old
Sabrina tramautised,” Boodhoo said. The
family believes that the bandits came from a neighbouring village, as
they seemed to be familiar with the area. The police responded about two hours after the Saturday night attack and recovered a warhead from the scene. Tuesday, January 03, 2006
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