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Businessman shot in brazen midday robbery
A 47-year-old businessman is nursing a gunshot wound to his left leg which he sustained while fighting off one of two bandits who attacked him outside the Plaisance Market around midday yesterday.
Gansham Persaud, of Enmore was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital and sent away after the bullet penetrated his left thigh and exited through the back of his leg.
Businessman Gansham Persaud
He was relieved of a gold chain valued at $400,000 and a gold bangle worth approximately $225,000.
The businessman who operates a stall in the Plaisance Market had just finished purchasing some carrots a short distance away from where he had parked his truck.
He said that he and his brother in law decided to drink a few rounds of Guinness before he went back to assist his wife who was packing up the goods in their stall.
After uplifting some keys from his truck which was parked on the roadway in front of the market, Persaud said that he saw two young men coming towards him.
He did not have the slightest idea that the men were about to rob him.
One of the men whipped out a handgun and struck the businessman in his face, saying, ‘Don’t f#@*ing move, give me all that you f#@*ing gat’.
“After he pulled the gun I didn’t waste time. I held on to him, I held on to his shirt. While I was holding on to the shirt, the next one scrambled the gold bangle off my hand,” Persaud said.
He explained that he managed to brace the bandit with the gun to the side of his truck and a fierce struggle ensued in the full view of several astonished onlookers.
However, the bandit still managed to snatch a gold chain from Persaud’s neck.
“I don’t know how he managed to snatch off the chain but when he get the chain he put the shot in my leg,” the businessman recalled.
After being shot, Persaud was forced to let go of the bandit who fled with his colleagues unchallenged.
He described the bandits as young men who appeared to be in their teens.
The injured businessman was picked up and taken to the Georgetown Hospital for treatment while the matter was reported to the police at Sparendaam.
No arrest has so far been made.
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