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Man fights for life after vicious hacking
– Nose sliced off, neck almost severed by four assailants
Up to press time doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were trying their best to save the life of a 40-year-old security guard whose neck was almost severed by four men at around 15:00hrs yesterday.
Battling for life:
Karan Persaud
Karan Persaud of Pigeon Island Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara (ECD) also sustained several stab wounds about his body and head.
One of his fingers was almost severed and his nose was completely sliced off by the men who were reportedly under the influence of alcohol.
Although no one has been arrested as yet, investigators managed to obtain the names of the four suspects from eyewitnesses after which they (police) visited their homes and took statements from family members.
The suspects are from Pigeon Island and neighbouring villages.
According to information received, Persaud was drinking at a bottom house at Lot 25 Pigeon Island when four men walked into the yard and approached him. They asked that he showed them where the urinal was located.
“He (Persaud) show them and turned away and one of the men asked he (Persaud) why he couldn’t get up and take them to the urinal and they started arguing,” an eyewitness who requested anonymity said.
According to the eyewitness, the men first took a bottle and hit the man on his head after which they pulled out knives and started stabbing him to the abdomen. No one was able to intervene, despite Persaud’s desperate his cries for help.
“After they stabbed him, two of them hold him down and one of them take the knife and slice his nose off and throw it on the ground,” the eyewitness related.
At the hospital yesterday, the man’s reputed wife Lilowtie Samaroo said she was at home when her son informed her about the brutal attack on her husband.
“I run and go in the yard next door to wheh dem went chopping he and I keep shouting for help and I tell de four of dem (suspects) that I know all of dem, and one who name Prakash ask me if I see he do anything and I shouted yes and he pelt a brick at me but it missed,” the woman recalled.
She added that while she was shouting for help, the men were constantly stabbing her husband who had fainted and had blood gushing from his neck.
“He fall down and then they hold him up and brace him to the wall and they just continue stabbing he. I thought he was dead. When they (Persaud’s attackers) finished with him they run away and we run over in the yard,” the wife said.
She added that her husband was lying face down and when she turned him over, she noticed his nose was sliced off and he had multiple wounds about his body. “People were walking on his nose and so because we didn’t know,” the wife said.
The house where the hacking incident reportedly occurred.
He was rushed to the GPHC in a taxi and was taken straight to theatre for immediate surgery.
According to his wife, although she as well as neighbours called the police, they arrived when the security guard had already been taken to the hospital and his attackers had vanished.
The owner for the yard where the incident occurred was taken to the station. Neighbours say he is likely to face charges for selling alcohol despite not being licensed to do so.
Kaieteur News was told that the four suspects were pelting bottles at the neighbours although little children were around. One neighbour said that she saw when one of the suspects, who lives a stone’s throw from where Persaud was attacked, go home and his sister sent him away in a taxi.
Neighbours and family members of Persaud are calling on the police to thoroughly investigate this case.
“I don’t want this to be another unsolved case which is customary in this country,” a relative of Persaud indicated.
Investigations are ongoing.
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