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Businessman shot during $8M robbery

Oct 04, 2011 News

 

An East Coast Demerara businessman is nursing a gunshot wound to his right shoulder after bandits snatched the $8M he was carrying, early yesterday morning.
The businessman, Purushotam Nauth, 49, of Foulis, Enmore, East Coast Demerara, was attacked and robbed by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.
The incident occurred around 07:45 hours on the Lusignan Railway Embankment.
Nauth’s condition is not critical and he did manage to provide this newspaper with some information before he was persuaded not to disclose anymore by a relative.
He told Kaieteur News that he was heading to a bank in the city with the cash when the attack occurred. From all indications, the attackers had followed him from his home and had waited for the right opportunity to strike.
Police, in a press release, said that Nauth was in a route 65 mini-bus along with the driver, Somal Persaud, 40, of Non Pareil, ECD, heading towards the city when two motor vehicles sandwiched the minibus, forcing the driver to stop.
The police said that a man exited from the front vehicle and another armed with a firearm from the rear vehicle and they held up the two occupants of the mini-bus.
The perpetrators then took away a bag containing $8M from Purushotam Nauth then shot him to his right shoulder in the process, before escaping in their vehicles.
An eyewitness told this newspaper that he saw a man emerge from a dark coloured wagon which had stopped in front of the bus and approach Nauth’s vehicle.
“He (bandit) tried to open the door but then he break the window. I hear two shots and then he say, ‘Give me de f*^king bag.’ he then pull out de bag and walk back to he car and they drive away,” the eyewitness told this newspaper.
He said that as the bandits were fleeing, the driver of the minibus raised an alarm but no one responded.
The driver then tried to follow the cars but apparently could not keep up with them.
He eventually took Nauth to the hospital where he was admitted.
The businessman told Kaieteur News that he was previously robbed in July this year and he is positive that yesterday’s perpetrators were the same people who had robbed him earlier in the year.
The matter was reported to the police but so far no one has been arrested.

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