Executed businessman’s bond damage due to arson-Fire Chief

POLICE yesterday were continuing to investigate the arson that damaged the storage bond owned by city businessman Mohamed Shalahudeen Bacchus Baksh, who was executed last week Thursday morning. No arrest has been made but the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) confirmed that the blaze was deliberately started in several sections of the heavily grilled and secured building, from, both inside and outside.
Baksh was socialising with friends at a bar on Thomas Street, when he was fatally shot.
The place that flames destroyed is located at Lot 322 Rohinital Street, Prashad Nagar.
Chief Fire Officer Marlon Gentle said the GFS received the call about 02:11hrs from a female caller and responded with three tenders.
He said the first tender arrived at the scene from the Campbellville Fire Station, also in Georgetown and firemen battled the conflagration in different parts of the two-storey concrete structure.
Gentle said, although the place was secured by grill work, the arsonist(s) managed to break open a window and commit the crime.
He said, at the back, wooden pallets and boxes were used to start the destruction of the place where plumbing and gardening tools, worth millions of dollars, were kept.
Gentle said, however, that only some parts of the building including the ceiling were gutted.
Baksh, 42, of Lot 9 Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara and Bel Air Gardens, Georgetown too, was proprietor of Pest Control Plus. He was buried according to Muslim rites at Versailles Cemetery, following the viewing and Janaaza at Versailles Masjid Compound, another West Bank Demerara place, on Monday.
A post mortem  performed on his corpse revealed that he died as a result of gunshot wounds to the head.
The shooter entered the restaurant and bar, where Baksh had been with friends about 22:00hrs the night of his killing.
Police have no clear motive for his murder but Baksh had previously survived a shooting assassination in 2008, on Lamaha Street, Georgetown

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