A 65-year-old cash crop farmer was robbed and shot after three armed men entered his home at Friendship, East Bank Demerara (EBD) around 06:45hrs on Sunday.
According to the police, the farmer, who was shot in his right thigh is in stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The bandits reportedly carted off an undisclosed sum of money.
No arrest has yet been made, but investigators have retrieved a spent shell of a small-calibre weapon at the scene.