Another car hijacked

Aug 30, 2016 News

The police are investigating a carjacking which occurred sometime yesterday morning in Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
This is the third reported case of carjacking for the month. None of the cars have been located.
On Sunday, a taxi driver parked a Toyota Spacio bearing registration number HC 4174 in front of his Eccles Old Road home. When he got up the following morning, it was gone.
Kubair Balram, the owner of the car, said that he received a call from the taxi driver who asked him to meet him at the Providence Police Station since the vehicle had been stolen.
“He said around five in the afternoon (17:00hrs) on Sunday, he parked in front his home. Up to midnight people see the car there, but when he got up around seven in the morning (07:00hrs) he didn’t see the car,” Balram said, while adding that he looked everywhere for the vehicle.
Balram said that he had only recently finished paying for the car.
On August 8, last, a 34-year-old man was beaten and kicked out of his own vehicle at La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD) by three armed bandits.The incident occurred around 22:00 hrs, on the eastern side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge.
Vishal Harrichand, a Schoonord, WBD resident, said that he had parked near the entrance to the bridge, and was waiting on his girlfriend when he was attacked by three men, who later made off with his silver-coloured Toyota Premio, PSS 5038.
Harrichand, who works as a driver with a construction company, said that the men beat and kicked him as he was driving to La Parfaite Harmonie—under their command.
“I was sitting in the car playing a game on my phone, with the two front windows down, when this person come from the back and place a gun at my neck and then two others come behind him. They forced their way into the car and told me to drive,” Harrichand said.
Also, on August 12, last, 29-year-old taxi driver, Shaheed Mohamed, of 60 Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo, lost his car to armed men.
Mohamed was “on a drop” with his vehicle, a silver Toyota Premio, PVV 5302, after a man hired him from the eastern side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge to go to La Parfaite Harmonie, around 00:45 hrs.
According to Mohamed, he and another taxi driver had parked at the bridge, and were waiting on customers, when a man approached him and asked the price to go to La Parfaite Harmonie.
“I told him the price and he said okay and jumped in the vehicle. When we reached a dark corner at Parfaite. he asked me to stop and another car pulled up and they robbed me.”
Both matters are being investigated.

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