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Pestex owner critical after execution attempt

Jun 16, 2012 News

In what is believed to be an execution attempt, a gunman last night shot the proprietor of Pestex Environmental Solutions at a city’s restaurant leaving him at a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
As at press time, the businessman whose name was given as Mohamed Shahabudeen Bacchus, 43, was listed as critical.
Bacchus, and four others, including two women and a bodyguard, were eating at Flava’s Grill, a Thomas Street business place when a car carrying the gunman pulled up.
“This Rastaman walked in the place and went straight up and shoot he…bam bam.. in the head and in he hand,” a source told Kaieteur News.
Bacchus is said to be from Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara.
The businessman’s bodyguard, a former prominent member of the Guyana Police Force, was unable to respond and the gunman swiftly fled into the car.
It was not the first attempt on the businessman’s life, this newspaper was told.
Police reportedly chased the getaway car, a dark burgundy colored Mitsubishi Lancer along Mandela Avenue but lost it.
As of press time, the police and the hospital medical staff were still trying to contact the family of the man.
According to an official of the grill, he was in the kitchen when his waitress ran in and said that there were gunshots.
He later discovered Bacchus badly wounded. He said that he saw a large head wound oozing blood and other matter. He said that he rushed the man to the hospital.
The grill was closed immediately.

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