Procurement officer shot,robbed outside city hotel still hospitalised
Fazil Ali: Shot and robbed of $13M
Fazil Ali: Shot and robbed of $13M

FORTY-SIX-year-old Fazil Ali, of Agriculture Road, Triumph, East Coast Demerara, shot and robbed of $13M outside a city hotel last Monday, remains warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital under doctors’ close watch.

In the attack, Ali sustained two gunshot wounds to the shoulder, while a third bullet grazed his chest.
A procurement officer, employed at CB&R Mining Inc at Bartica, Ali was in his motor vehicle around 08:30hrs parked outside “Sleep In” Hotel on Brickdam, where he was awaiting another employee for them to go shopping for machine parts, food supplies and other goods for his boss, Chunilall Babolall’s gold mining camp in the interior.
The father of four, still suffering pains from the wounds, recalled that scarcely had he spoken to his colleague on his cellular phone that morning, when he was struck by the bullets in the chest and shoulder by a lone gunman, masked with a rag over his face and wearing black.
But the gunman may have been an amateur, and after discharging the first three rounds, the magazine from his weapon fell to the ground, bringing an abrupt end to the gunfire on Ali. That was what probably saved the victim’s life, for he now recalls that from the way the gunman was squeezing the trigger, it appeared he wanted to empty it on him. He is grateful to God for sparing his life.
After discharging the rounds at the hapless victim, the gunman who might have been stalking him, dived under the passenger’s seat and pulled out a bag containing $13M, which should have been used for purchasing. Ali impulsively held onto his bleeding shoulder and stumbled out of his motor vehicle.
He however recalled that the gunman, clutching the bag containing the money, headed across the road to a waiting motor car (blue Toyota 212) with two other men inside. They then sped away.
The police at the nearby Brickdam Police Station were summoned and arrived at the scene of the robbery and shooting. They recovered spent shells and the magazine which had fallen from the weapon.
Investigations are in progress.

(By Shirley Thomas)

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