Gold miner may lose eye after brutal chopping

Sep 27, 2011 News

A young gold miner may lose his sight after being brutally chopped on Monday night during a bizarre confrontation with a group of men near Grant Sand Road, Soesdyke.
Warren Johnson, 24, alleged that he was chopped in the face, back and right arm by four men who emerged from a car and attacked him with cutlasses while he was standing on a roadway near his home. He also claimed that some of the men had guns.
Johnson has been admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and relatives said that they have been informed that he had suffered severe damage to his left eye.
Relatives also claim that they have given police at Timehri the licence number of the vehicle in which the suspects fled. They said that they have received reports that the car belongs to a police rank who often rents out his vehicle.
A female relative said that the wounded man works as a miner at Mahdia and had no problem with anyone. However, she speculated that the assailants mistook Johnson for his brother, since the siblings are identical twins.
Johnson was unable to speak clearly – the left side of his face was badly swollen.
According to reports, the miner and two other young men were standing on a roadway near Grant Sand Road at around 20:00 hrs on Monday, when a car with four men stopped near them.
The occupants, who were reportedly carrying guns and cutlasses, emerged from the car and one of hem reportedly told Johnson ‘Ah now ketch yuh…’
Johnson said that he and his two companions immediately took off, but the men managed to corner him near his relative’s home and began to chop him.
Luckily for Johnson, the men reportedly fled after seeing the light of an approaching motorcycle.
A relative took the wounded man to the East Demerara Regional Hospital, where he was treated before being transferred to the GPHC.
One female relative said that medical staff at the GPHC had initially feared that Johnson would not survive the attack.
“They had said that they were not sure that he would make it…he had lost a lot of blood, the bones in his left cheek were showing, and they said that a nerve in his (left) eye was damaged.”
But the relatives expressed concern that no one has been apprehended although police have been given a description of the vehicle the attackers used and its licence number.
Police have not yet taken a statement from the victim.
Speculating that Johnson was a victim of mistaken identity, relatives conformed that his twin brother was involved in a recent dispute with a group of youths over a mobile phone that the youths had allegedly stolen from a cousin of the Johnsons.

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