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Watch vendor shot outside home by waiting bandits

Dec 17, 2010 News

Up to late last night doctors at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Kingston were operating on a city watch vendor who was shot by bandits just as he was entering his yard at Goedverwagting, on the East Coast of Demerara.
Paul Samaroo, 32, who operates just outside the Vendors’ Arcade on Water Street, had just exited a minibus and was about to open his gate when two bandits attacked him just before 22:00 hours.
According to an eyewitness, the bandits appeared to have been waiting for Samaroo to come home, for as soon as he exited the bus, they ran towards him and shot him before relieving him of his jewellery.
The bullet struck Samaroo on his right arm fracturing a bone before entering his right side abdomen.
An anxious relative who was at the hospital last night told this newspaper that an eyewitness tried to alert Samaroo about the attack.
“He see the two men running coming and he shout out, but like as soon as Paul turn around, dem men shoot,” the relative related.
Realizing that he was wounded, Samaroo took no chances and hurriedly handed over the jewellery he was wearing to avoid any further injury.
The two bandits then fled towards the back of the village and disappeared in the darkness.
The injured watch vendor was picked up and rushed to the hospital where he was immediately admitted.
The matter was reported to the police at the Sparendaam Station and an investigation was launched.
No one has so far been arrested.

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