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Brazilian woman found with throat slit

Sep 13, 2011 News

 

 

A Brazilian woman was added to the spiraling list of murder victims in Guyana’s interior, when she had her throat slit in what appeared to be a robbery last Saturday.
Maria Alvez Da Silva, who was said to be in her 40s, was found lying in a pool of blood in the internet café at a newly opened gold mining location called ‘Not Nice Backdam’, about 50 miles from Itaballi.
From all appearances, the woman who was an employee of the café put up a fierce struggle with her attacker, since there was blood splattered all over the facility.
A source in the area explained that the internet café where Da Silva was working is located about a mile from the main mining area and she would normally be alone.
It is believed that the perpetrator(s) used such an opportunity to pounce.
“Like after she get juk, she walk all over de shop before she collapse. Dem men seh it was a vicious slit,” a source in the area told Kaieteur News.
The source said that it was another Brazilian national who went to the café to make a call and made the gruesome discovery.
The Brazilian travelled by ATV to the nearest community where he reported what he had seen.
On Sunday, a team of policemen from Bartica then travelled to the location where they carried out initial investigations.
This newspaper was informed that $300,000 is missing from the café.
Da Silva’s body was subsequently brought out and is presently lying at the Lyken Funeral Parlour awaiting a post mortem examination.
Police said they have arrested three men in connection  with the murder.
The woman’s death brings the murder figure in the police E&F Division to a staggering 32, the highest of all police divisions.

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