Teen beaten unconscious outside Chinese restaurant

Eighteen – year – old Osaran Stewart of Fort Ordinance Housing Scheme (East Canje, Berbice), was rushed to the New Amsterdam hospital after he was repeatedly hit in the head, allegedly by a Chinese restaurateur.

The incident occurred in the vicinity of Lim Kang restaurant at the Main and Chapel Street junction in New Amsterdam just after 19:35h on Tuesday. His mother Ottaney Stewart told this newspaper that her son was selling dog food when the restaurant owner approached him and pushed away his stall.

She said her son picked up a piece of wood after he was threatened but dropped it soon after. According to the mother, the restaurant owner, who had his infant daughter in his hand, then picked up the wood and dealt her son several lashes to the head, rendering him unconscious.

The injured man was taken to New Amsterdam hospital where he remains at patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

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