East Canje taxi driver stabbed during failed hijacking

Jul 27, 2016 News

The car that was hijacked

An East Canje taxi driver nearly lost his life during a failed hijacking of his vehicle yesterday morning at Welfare, East Canje, Berbice, and was stabbed multiple times about the body.
Chunilall Dunauth, 40, called ‘Ricky’ is now nursing four stab wounds about his body at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
According to information received, shortly after 10:00 am, the suspect clad in black clothing entered his vehicle, a silver Nissan Bluebird Sylphy, bearing licence number HC 4977, in the vicinity of New Street, New Amsterdam, and requested to be taken into Canje.
While arriving to his alleged destination, the man pulled out a knife and proceeded to stab Dudnauth who began shouting for help.
Dudnauth tried to fight off the hijacker who threw him out of the vehicle and attempted to drive off, but instead backed the car into a nearby drain.
According to one resident in the area, she heard someone shouting ‘thief thief’ and decided to investigate.
“When we look outside, we see a boy running out the street in all ova black with a red toupe on so dem boys start run behind he but he run in de bush suh we couldn’t catch he. When we come back in de street now, we see Ricky deh in the mud and he holla that he get stab up. We clean he up and carry he hospital and deh trying to call Reliance Police Station but dem ain’t come till a hour later.”
Residents stressed that the absence of security is a major concern in the East Canje area and are calling on the relevant authorities to implement strategies to prevent such an incident from reoccurring.

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