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Doctors remove dead fetus from Mash Day shooting victim
Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) have removed a dead fetus from the Vryheids Lust, East Coast Demerara (ECD) woman who was shot by a fleeing bandit on Mashramani Day.
The woman, Anisah Woolford, 32, is said to be in a stable condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Hospital.
Doctors treating the injured woman at the time she was shot did not attempt to remove the fetus as she had lost too much blood.
Anisah Woolford while on her hospital bed before the surgery
After carrying the dead fetus in her womb for four days, the woman was taken into theatre on Monday last, where her surgery was done.
Luchonda Beckles, 24, the second shooting victim, who hails from Plaisance, ECD, was treated at the GPHC the same day, but was discharged.
The alleged shooter, fingered as a bandit, was taken into police custody at the Sparendaam Police Station.
On February 23, the two ECD women were shot by the escaping bandit following a confrontation with angry villagers at Vryheid’s Lust.
The bandit was being chased by three residents after he and another man had allegedly committed a robbery at a butcher shop in Better Hope, ECD.
While being chased by residents who were armed with sticks and cutlasses, he discharged multiple shots from a firearm in an attempt to ward them off.
Beckles was shot while she was on the roadway, while Woolford was wounded to the hip while standing on her verandah.
One of the bandits managed to escape while the other was later apprehended by the police, hiding in the canefield aback of Vryheid’s Lust.
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