SENIOR Pressman attached to the Guyana National Newspapers Limited (GNNL), the publishers of the Daily and Sunday editions of the Guyana Chronicle, is counting his lucky stars for being alive though badly bruised after an encounter with two bandits who got away with his motorcycle on Friday morning.

Recalling the encounter, Clint Bastian said his horror began when he left his place of work and rode off on his way home at about 05:40hrs on Friday morning.

Bastian added that he rode up to Anira Street, Queenstown and he noticed two men on a motorcycle behind him. At first he wasn’t alarmed until he realised that the duo was trailing him.

At this point, the 59-year-old man decided to ride faster in an effort to escape but that only caused the bandits to accelerate. When they came up to him, they held onto him by his collar which caused him to fall off his black motorcycle with licence plate CH 7648.

There, while he was bruised and in pain lying at the side of the road at Anira and Laluni Streets, Queenstown, one of the men rode off with his cycle which had all his documents under the seat.

The pressman related that after the robbers left a security guard enquired what had happened and he was encouraged to make a report at the Alberttown Police Station.

Bastian added that a taxi driver who was passing offered to take him to the police station to file a report after he told him what had happened.

He was badly bruised on his shoulders, arms and legs when he fell off his motorcycle and is still in pain.

The pressman stated that he had been robbed before but on the East Coast of Demerara and had only bought his bike less than two years ago for $190,000 at Jialing. He is hoping to retrieve same since it is his only mode of transportation.

Anyone with information regarding the location of the said motorcycle can contact the nearest police station or 500-2814.