Three arrested for the brutal hacking of security guard

May 17, 2014 News

Three persons have been arrested following the vicious hacking of a 40-year-old Security guard at Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara. The hacking occurred around 15:00hrs on Thursday.
Two of those in custody for the brutal hacking of Persaud are Eman Rupnarine, 30, and Bayo. Two other suspects are still at large.
The owner, Alston Khan for the Lot 25 Pigeon Island house where the vicious attack took place was also arrested for selling unlicenced alcoholic beverages.

Injured: Karan Persaud

Karan Persaud, of Pigeon Island Squatting Area, is clinging to life at the GPHC. He was stabbed multiple times about his body by four men who were reportedly under the influence of alcohol.
Persaud’s neck and one of his fingers were almost severed. His nose was sliced off by the men who subsequently escaped.
The security guard underwent emergency surgery on Thursday and was placed in the Intensive Care Unit. He was again taken to the theatre for another surgery around 10:00 hrs yesterday.
According to a police source, after statements were taken from eyewitnesses on Thursday, investigators went in search of the men and arrested two out of the four.
According to information received, Persaud was drinking at a bottom house when four men walked into the yard and approached him. They asked that he show 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.
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. 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. 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. 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.
He was rushed to the GPHC in a taxi and was taken straight to theatre for immediate surgery.

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