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Sep 22, 2009 News
The cane cutter shot in his leg and abdomen, is thanking God for life. Nursing two gunshot wounds, Krishna Persaud, 45, is conscious and stable at the Georgetown Public Hospital and is calling for the assailants to be arrested.
He was shot twice on Sunday around 20:00hrs at a Kaneville pools shop where he was drinking.
Persaud, who was celebrating after receiving his back-pay, was shot after bandits attempted to rob the pool shop he was in.
Reflecting on the incident, Persaud said, “When dem hold the shop girl me left and she run.
Then them push me down by a barrel and shoot me and drag me back in the shop next to the pool table”.
He said as he lay bleeding on the floor the men ran through his pockets and relieved him of an unknown quantity of cash.
Relatives of the victim took him to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where he obtained treatment before being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The men also reportedly escaped the scene with an unknown quantity of cash and a music system from the pools shop.
Relatives of the victim told Kaieteur News that around noon yesterday police were in the area of the incident investigating.
No one has been arrested or detained in relation to the incident.
However, the residents say that one of the attackers was released from prison only last week.
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