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Man dead, brother wounded in Mash night brawl
– attacked by drunken mob with broken bottles
By Romila Boodram
A 25-year-old man was stabbed to death and his brother wounded after they were viciously attacked on Mashramani night, allegedly by a group of intoxicated men armed with broken bottles.
Kumar Mohabir of Lot 7 Enterprise, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was stabbed several times about the body at around 19:45 hrs in the vicinity of Vlissengen Road and Thomas Lands. He succumbed at around 02:45 hrs yesterday at the Woodlands Hospital.
His brother, 30-year-old Narendra Mohabir, also sustained multiple stab wounds, allegedly when he threw himself on his mortally wounded sibling to stop the brutal attack. He was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation but was not admitted.
The motive for the attack is still unclear. The younger sibling had operated a tent rental business at his home and Kaieteur News understands that the brawl occurred shortly after the victim had dismantled a tent.
Dead: Kumar Mohabir
Kaieteur News understands that Kumar Mohabir, his brother, Narendra, and three children left their home to collect a tent which they had rented to one of their neighbours for the Mashramani celebrations.
The injured brother recalled that Kumar was about to buy juices for the children at a nearby bar when about seven men, who had been dancing and appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, attacked him.
“He left to go buy the juices and then I see a set of men over him stabbing him with broken bottles and punching him in his belly so I run and throw myself over him so he wouldn’t get anymore stabs,” Narendra Mohabir said.
“We don’t know what exactly happen but maybe he just mash somebody foot or something,” the relatives said.
Some of the men reportedly hurled broken bottles during the approximately three- minute ordeal.
“After they stabbing me, I start holler and people start come and a police come and the men run away,” the injured Mohabir recalled. Persons who were in the vicinity reportedly placed the wounded siblings in a vehicle and rushed them to the Woodlands Hospital, where Kumar later succumbed.
Narendra Mohabir said that while he was receiving treatment, one of his attackers, who reportedly sustained some injury, attempted to seek treatment at the same hospital.
“While the doctor was stitching my wound, I see him and after he see me, he run out and like he think I left so he come back later,” Mohabir said, adding that one of his friends who was at the hospital managed to take a photograph of the suspect. Mohabir said that he managed to record the licence number of a car that the suspect boarded.
Mohabir, who is a minibus driver, said that he can positively identify the men who killed his bother.
Members of the grief-stricken family yesterday appealed for justice.
The injured brother Narendra Mohabir
“I am a mother and I have lost my son and it hurts me and I want justice for my son’s death. He is young, he is not even married as yet and they took him from me,” the slain man’s mother, Nasmoon Mohabir, said.
A report has been made at the Alberttown and Kitty Police Stations, but up to yesterday no arrests had been made.
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