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Nov 15, 2012 News
Police at Mabaruma last night launched a manhunt for a young man who slashed open a teenager’s stomach and slit her throat leaving her battling for her life at the Mabaruma Hospital.
The teenager, Bibi Zaleena Shadeek, 15, a fifth form student of the Mabaruma Secondary School, was rushed to the hospital in her community around 20:00 hours.
But there was no doctor on duty and the lone medical officer there desperately tried to stabilize her in preparation for an emergency medi-vac to the city for better medical attention.
Reports reaching this newspaper stated that sometime last night the teenager was at her home when the young man jumped the fence of her yard and attacked her with a knife.
Her father, Feroze Shadeek, told this newspaper in a telephone interview last night that the young man, who is a minibus conductor, was trying to maintain a relationship with the girl but she constantly spurned him.
From all indications, he became obsessed and made a desperate attempt to end her life.
According to Feroze Shadeek his daughter was in the bottom flat of their house at Kumaka, when the suspect who had apparently jumped their fence lured her outside.
He said that her two young cousins, who were also in the bottom flat, later saw her coming back into the house holding her stomach and throat, and they raised an alarm.
Feroze said that he ran downstairs and saw his daughter sitting in a chair.
“She was holding her belly and blood was pouring from her neck,” said Feroze, adding that both he and his wife panicked and began screaming to alert neighbours.
By the time the neighbours responded, the attacker had made good his escape.
They however grabbed the badly wounded teenager and rushed her to the hospital.
She was stabilized and brought to the city just before midnight.
Her condition is however very critical.
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