THE police are hunting three men who chopped and beat a 21-year-old man, thereby fracturing his skull while he was at his girlfriend’s home at Back Street, Herstelling, East Bank Demerara (EBD).

The victim, of La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD) is suffering an open-skull fracture, fracture to the right wrist, a partially severed forearm and a deep laceration to the left side of the neck after he was attacked by his girlfriend’s ex-partner and his friends Sunday night.

Reports indicate that the victim was at his girlfriend’s house when he was confronted by her former partner who threatened to kill him.

The ex-boyfriend, along with two of his colleagues, then began to assault the man by cuffing and chopping him about his body.

After the attack, the man was rushed to the hospital where he remains in a critical condition awaiting surgery. The suspects remain at large.