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Jun 19, 2014 News
Armed bandits stormed the home of a Number 59 Village, Corentyne couple around
21:00 hrs on Tuesday and carted off millions of dollars in jewelry and over $160,000 in cash.
The traumatized woman, Shalinie Ramkissoon, 28, said that she went to open the gates for her husband, Michael Peters, who had just returned home. “Me come and opened the gate me son, Lucas, and he sit on the car and then I asked him for us to go inside because I left the door open.”
While going to the house at the back, three masked men dressed in dark coloured clothing were waiting for them, armed with a gun and cutlass. “I saw three men in dark coloured clothes and masks,” she related.
Ramkissoon said that her husband approached the men and he was chopped on his shoulder. “One of them told the other not to chop, and by that time they fired a load and I told my husband to cooperate with them and do what they told him to do, because I was scared.”
So the shot was fired and Ramkissoon’s finger was grazed. “Then they asked where the money was and I told them it was upstairs but when I go upstairs I did not find the money.” She had no idea that the bandits had already scoured their upstairs and had picked up a quantity of cash and gold jewelry.
The neighbours then started to scream for help, “and them boys rushed in and by the time I came down, they were already gone.” The ordeal lasted ten minutes.
Police from the Number 51 Police Station, she said, arrived nearly an hour later and took statements.
It should be noted, too, that there is a police outpost in the area.
This was the second such robbery for the couple, who also operate a grocery shop. In 2012, bandits stole a quantity of cash as well, while they were sleeping.
Peters was treated at the New Amsterdam Hospital and sent home. Ramkissoon, too, was treated for injuries under her eyes and to her left finger.
(Leon Suseran)
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