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Farmer loses three fingers in cutlass attack

Dec 14, 2008 News

A cattle farmer of Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara was yesterday rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after his hand was almost severed in a cutlass attack.

Irvin Duke, 27, lost three of fingers as a result of the attack. His assailant is said to be a cousin. In hospital, the injured man was still very shocked and surprised at the attack.

Duke said that he had gone to the “line-top” to collect his cattle when he saw his cousin. He said that he had taken his cattle on the “line top” since the village was under flood waters.

He continued that, when he saw his cousin, he enquired about a piece of rope that the cousin was cutting. He explained that he queried the reason for the cousin “cutting meh rope, man, and I got to use it,” and the cousin’s reply was, “What you could do about it?”

The young man said that he quietly told his cousin that he wouldn’t do anything because they were family, but the cousin had other views.

The injured Duke said that as he turned away from his cousin, the man whipped out a cutlass and lashed him in his back. Duke said that he turned around, rested his hands on a lighting pole, “and meh cousin just looked at me and chopped off meh fingers.”

His sister, Onika Duke, who was also present during the hospital visit, said that they immediately rushed the injured man to the city hospital. The woman said that the doctors tried to save his fingers but it was too late.

She said that they returned home in an effort to retrieve the “fingers,” which they did, but when they returned to the hospital, doctors said that the fingers were already “dead”.

Up to press time, police on the East Coast were conducting a manhunt for the assailant. Kaieteur News was reliably informed that the suspect is wanted in connection with a series of cattle robberies, and is also before the courts on a carnal knowledge charge.

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