POLICE are on the hunt for three men who attempted to rob a Zeelugt, West Coast Demerara family on Tuesday night and in the process wounded the victim in the head.

According to a police report, the bandits attacked in the evening and the residents retaliated. The armed men fled the scene empty-handed in an Allion motorcar which they abandoned at the Zeelugt Sea Dam after it got stuck.

Several documents, a cellphone phone and a paintball gun were found in the vehicle.