Another savage home invasion…Bandits chop, rob West Berbice business couple

Aug 17, 2015 News

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– suspect held following shoot-out with police

The sounds of screams and gunshots sent Abdool and Neerranie Kadir’s son running to his parents’ Number Two Village, West Coast Berbice home at around three o’clock yesterday morning.
He found his mother lying in her yard with gaping cutlass wounds to her hands and legs, while his father stood nearby, clutching his slashed stomach, even as blood from another wound trickled down his face.
The Kadirs, who are fish vendors, are the latest victims of the recent rash of savage home invasions, were attacked and robbed by three masked men as they were preparing to head to the Rosignol Stelling.
Neeranie Kadir, 46, was gun-butted, chopped and relieved of her rings while trying to escape from two of the masked men who had cornered her in the family’s bottom flat. Her husband, Abdool Kadir, a 47-year-old fisherman and vendor, was slashed on the stomach, head and left arm as he wrestled with the third man.

But it was Mrs. Kadir who bore the brunt of the attack, which left her with chop wounds to her arms and left leg, along with suspected fractures on limbs that were chopped to the bone.
She was also struck on the head and had a tooth knocked out when one of the bandits pushed a gun into her mouth.
Mrs. Kadir was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and also underwent a CT scan and X-Ray examination. She was still in the hospital’s operating theatre up to late yesterday evening.
Mr. Kadir’s wounds were bandaged and sutured but he was not hospitalised.
The bandits reportedly struck one of the couple’s two daughters, who occupy the top flat of the house, but left her unharmed, though severely traumatised.
The bandits also fired at least two shots in the couple’s home, but were forced to beat a quick retreat due to the quick response by residents and police. They only managed to cart off two rings, including Mrs. Kadir’s wedding ring and two chains.
Relatives said that the robbers fled into nearby rice fields, and voiced concern that the police ranks failed to pursue them.
But a police press release stated that ranks who responded to the report came under gunfire from a group of men along the Number Two Village Public Road. The police returned fire and also arrested a suspect.
Mr. Kadir owns three fishing boats and the couple would rise early to sell his catch at Rosignol.
He believes that the bandits were familiar with this routine, and secreted themselves in his yard sometime during the night after cutting a hole in his back fence.

Kadir and his wife, who occupy the bottom flat of their two storey home, were up at around three o’clock yesterday morning. His wife was inside and he was just about to join her when a man, who was masked and armed with a cutlass, rushed at him. Two others, who were also masked, ran into the house.
“The short one with the cutlass start fire chop at me, and two others go in the house and one of them broad-side my daughter and the other one fire two shots.
“My wife try to run out to the road and they fire chops at she.”
Mr. Kadir said that he shouted for help, while trying to wrest the cutlass from the third man who was attacking him.
The fisherman said that he managed to ward off some of the blows, but the robber slashed his stomach, head and left hand.
The couple’s son, who lives nearby, and one of Mrs. Kadir’s sisters, heard the commotion and ran to the scene.
“I hear my nephew hollering and I start run (to the scene),” Mr. Kadir’s sister-in-law said. “I got to the house and I see my brother-in-law leaning and bleeding from he head, belly and hand, and I see she (Mrs. Kadir) lie down by the front gate.”
Kaieteur News understands that some residents saw the robbers running into the nearby rice-fields, but relatives of the brutalized couple said that police ranks, who had arrived, did not pursue them.
Police took the victims to the Fort Wellington Hospital, where, according to Mr. Kadir, they found the hospital doors shut tight and the staff inside apparently fast asleep.
He claimed that the ranks had to bang on the doors for several minutes before the staff responded. Mr. Kadir was treated at the hospital and sent home, while his wife was transferred to the GPHC.
Police have been confronted in recent months with a spate of similar savage and senseless home invasions.
Two Fridays ago, Zhenjz Su, the owner of the Jade Stone Restaurant in Mandela Avenue, was gagged, bound and chopped to death in the kitchen area of his restaurant.
His wife, 32-year-old Fei Su, was beaten unconsciousness, with the attackers knocking out some of her teeth.
On June 5, Ganesh Ramlall, the owner of Regent Multiplex Mall, was riddled with bullets by bandits in his La Jalousie home, West Coast Demerara.
On June 9, businessman Mohamed Chand and his wife, Land Court Judge Nicola Pierre were battered and robbed in their Felicity, East Coast Demerara home. Mr. Chand lost an eye, while Mrs. Pierre suffered a broken jaw.
And three Saturdays ago, surveillance cameras recorded a young man clubbing, kicking and stomping 77-year-old Carmen Ganesh to death in her home at Montrose, East Coast Demerara.
Despite the posting of a $2M reward, police are still to apprehend the killers of Zhenjz Su and Mrs. Carmen Ganesh.

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