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Businessman shot, robbed
The owner of a newly opened restaurant located on Lamaha Street, Georgetown was yesterday shot in his left thigh and robbed of an undisclosed sum of cash.
Injured is 49-year-old Dong Show Yong. He is the owner of Treasure Island Restaurant which was opened about one month back.
According to information, around 04:45 hours, three gunmen walked into the restaurant and demanded everyone to hand over their valuables. The bandits took away a quantity of cellular phones from the customers.
Kaieteur News was told that before the gunmen walked out of the restaurant, they shot the owner. Yesterday when Kaieteur News arrived at the scene, the injured man’s wife refused to say what happened.
“Nothing nah happen here,” she told the reporter and closed the door to her premises when the reporter walked out.
Meanwhile, at the hospital yesterday, Yong was seen being taken for an X-tray. His condition is listed as stable.
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