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Sep 11, 2009 News
Management of the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) has expressed shock over Wednesday evening’s brazen attack on a pedestrian.
The victim, a twenty-one year-old female of Providence, East Bank Demerara, was beaten, in an apparent sexual assault/robbery attempt, and then thrown overboard by her attacker.
General Manager of the DHB, Rawlston Adams, yesterday agreed that the nature of the attack was totally unheard of on the structure which has become a popular exercising spot for walkers.
The attacker, described as “big-bellied”, was still being sought as at press time.
Security on the harbour bridge is tight, assured Adams, with personnel located at both ends and near the retractor span.
However, the attack on Wednesday occurred at around 20:00 hrs. It also came at a time when a power outage had just hit the bridge.
The official noted that security on the bridge ‘is at always on high’, and there was no need for additional ranks.
Adams also stressed that there is no way that any persons with evil intentions could carry out their acts and then use the networks of pontoons under the bridge to escape. The only alternative is the walkways.
On Wednesday night, the Guyana Technical Institute student was walking on the bridge listening to her iPod when her attacker emerged from the darkness and cuffed and kicked her about the body and stabbed her in the ear.
The woman said that she stayed alive by clinging desperately to the pontoons holding the bridge together, then pulling herself up to safety.
Placing a sharp object to her neck, the man had dragged her down to the area below the bridge where he demanded money and jewels.
“I can’t swim, so I put my legs up and braced it against the pontoon and pulled myself up.”
A motorcycle rider, who was passing had rescued the traumatized girl.
According to the man, he placed the woman on his motorcycle and took her back across the bridge to the police outpost.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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