‘CG’ bandits shoot businessman dead, escape with bag of money
The scene of the robbery yesterday. The vehicle in the foreground is the one in which the slain businessman and his wife were travelling
The scene of the robbery yesterday. The vehicle in the foreground is the one in which the slain businessman and his wife were travelling

–also shoot, injure man’s wife

BUSINESSMAN Ashok Raghu, 43, of 77 Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown was shot dead in his vehicle late yesterday by bandits on a Honda CG motorcycle.The shooting occurred at the traffic light on Vlissingen Road near the entrance to Botanical Gardens. Raghu’s wife, Sherry, was also shot in the thigh and toe, and is now a patient at the Georgetown Hospital.

According to reports, the bandits apparently traced the couple from a city Bank where they went to make a withdrawal. One eyewitness told the Guyana Chronicle that the traffic light was ‘on red’ when the bandits made their move. The car in which the couple was travelling was burgundy in colour, and bore the registration number PGG 8291.

According to the eyewitness, the businessman was heading south on Vlissingen Road, while the bandits were travelling north.
“After the car stopped at the traffic light,” the eyewitness said, “the bandits… who look to be in their mid-30s, then went up to the man car trying to snatch a bag; but as they try to get the bag, the man was fighting.”
Continuing with the narrative, the eyewitness said, “As the man fight back, the bandits then shot him. When the man was coming out the car to go to the hospital in another vehicle, he was hollering for his life; his wife, who was also shot, was screaming. A car then took them to the hospital.”

The two bandits reportedly made good their escape after the deed was done, with the pillion rider still carrying the gun in his hand.
When this publication visited the hospital, the only relatives there at the time were the man’s two daughters, one of whom said that her father succumbed while receiving treatment. She said that all she’d heard was that her mother and father got shot and robbed.
“Why they had to do this to my father”? the grief-stricken young woman asked. “They robbed him, plus killed him. When is this going to stop in this country? Something needs to be done! I can’t believe that my father is dead!”
A senior police told the Chronicle that based on police investigations, the bag the bandits reportedly made off with contained both money and important documents, and that the Force will be working tirelessly to bring justice to the late businessman’s family.
Just two Sundays ago, Marvin Cumberbatch of Guyana Water Inc. was shot dead in North Sophia after he was robbed of his motorcycle.
The man had moments before picked up his girlfriend from classes and dropped her off at her home in Sophia.

The Chronicle was informed that the bandit wrestled with Cumberbatch, shot him dead, then rode off on his motorcycle.

(By Asif Hakim)

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