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Feb 08, 2016 News
A taxi driver is now hospitalised after he was shot in his left leg following a botched robbery at his home around 20:30 on Friday.
According to information Darshan Rampersaud, 38, a taxi driver of Coburg Street, Cumberland, East Canje, Berbice, had just returned home when he was attacked.
Rampersaud lives at the residence with his wife Marlyn Ramsammy, two teenage children and his 72 year old mother-in-law but only he and the elderly woman were at home when the incident occurred.
Information revealed that the man’s wife and two children had earlier left the house to attend a Mandir in the village. Rampersaud had just parked his car and went into the kitchen where he drank some tea.
He then went upstairs and turned on his computer when he heard footsteps approaching. He decided to check and was accosted by two bandits who had entered the house through an open downstairs door. One of the bandits was armed with a handgun while the other was armed with a cutlass. One was wearing a mask while the other had a toque pulled down over his face.
The thieves scrambled him and placed the gun to his chest and began demanding that he hand over gold and money. After he told them that he hadn’t any gold and money, he was broadsided about his body by the cutlass wielding bandit. The bandits continued to beat Rampersaud as they kept up their demands. Rampersaud was told to lie down, but he refused, telling the thieves that he doesn’t have anything. The bandit then struck him in his head with the gun causing a round to be discharged.
The thieves then shot the hapless man in his foot before escaping with his watch and $12,000 which he had on the step to pay his rent. The thieves also escaped with his wife’s cell phone.
After they left, the seriously injured Rampersaud then entered his car and drove to the Mandir where he collected his son and drove to the New Amsterdam Hospital even as he bled profusely.
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