Latest update March 24th, 2025 7:05 AM
Dredge owner gunned down in car, wife wounded
…motorbike bandits escape with cash, firearm
Two bandits on a CG motorcycle shot a dredge owner dead in his car and wounded his wife after
Shyrazadi Ragghu at the GPHC
cornering the couple at the Regent Street and Vlissengen Road junction at around 13:40 hrs yesterday.
Ashook Ragghu, 43, of Lot 77 Pike Street, Campbellville, was shot in the chest while struggling with the gunmen, who were trying to relieve him of a moneybag containing an undisclosed sum of cash.
The robbers then shot the businessman’s wife, Shyrazadi Ragghu, in the right thigh before fleeing with the bag of money and the slain man’s licensed handgun.
The victims were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where Mr. Ragghu was pronounced dead. His wife is being treated at the same institution.
A police official said that the investigators are questioning a number of suspects but gave no indication that the killers had been apprehended.
Kaieteur News understands that Mr. Ragghu has a gold mining operation at Arimu backdam, Cuyuni, and that the family recently moved from Berbice to Georgetown.
According to reports, Ragghu had picked up his wife from a city bank and the gunmen, who were apparently trailing the couple, made their move when the victims, heading south along Vlissengen Road, were forced to stop at the traffic light near the Botanical Gardens.
Kaieteur News understands that the gunmen rode up to the couple’s Toyota Carina, PGG 8291, and tried to relieve the businessman of his money. The dredge owner reportedly decided to fight back.
“I see the man in the car fight up when one of the men on the bike tried to grab his haversack out of his vehicle, then the bandits shoot up and they ride away,” one eyewitness related.
Onlookers at the vehicle in which the couple was shot.
Eyewitnesses recalled seeing Mrs. Ragghu screaming in the car with her husband slumped in the driver’s seat.
Kaieteur News understands that a passing taxi driver took the couple to the GPHC where doctors pronounced Ragghu dead.
The slain businessman’s relatives were too upset to say much to reporters who turned up at the family’s Pike Street home. However, the couple’s daughter, Arishma Ragghu, said that she had little faith in the police to find her father’s killers.
Police have expressed concern about the escalation of attacks by gunmen on bicycles and motorcycles.
Two Mondays ago, 29-year-old Guyana Water Inc. employee Marvin Cumbermack was shot dead by a man on a bicycle while riding his motorcycle through South Sophia.
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