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Feb 23, 2018 News
Bandits targeting commercial bank customers struck again yesterday, shooting a Caricom Secretariat official in the right leg and escaping with $264,000.
Lionel Persaud, 59, a programme manager, was cornered outside his Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara residence at around 14.00 hrs, shortly after leaving a commercial bank.
The shooter and an accomplice arrived and escaped by car.
A police release stated that Persaud had visited a commercial bank on the East Coast of Demerara then headed home in his car. When he arrived, the occupants of another vehicle approached from a northern direction and blocked Persaud’s path.
A man then exited from the back seat, pointed a handgun at the Caricom Secretariat official, and relieved him of a bag containing the cash he had withdrawn.
The bandit then shot Persaud in the upper right leg before escaping with his accomplice. A policeman transported Persaud to hospital.
Investigators retrieved a spent shell from the scene and “are making stringent efforts to trace the vehicle and apprehend the suspects.”
Persaud is the second person to be shot and robbed in two days after leaving a commercial bank.
At around 13.00 hrs on Wednesday, electrical contractor Bisnauth Chan, also called Terry Chan, was shot in the head and relieved of $600,000 just after leaving a commercial bank and entering his workplace at Foulis, East Coast Demerara.
Chan, 38, had cashed an $800,000 cheque at the Republic Bank branch at Triumph, East Coast Demerara.
The robber and an accomplice escaped with the cash on a CG motorcycle, which had no number plates.
Chan has been admitted to hospital with a fractured skull. He is said to be in stable condition after undergoing surgery.
The contractor had told Kaieteur News that he had seen a car apparently trailing him in the vicinity of Lusignan. However, the contractor said that the vehicle was nowhere in sight when he reached his workplace.
Chan said that just as he entered his workplace at Foulis, he heard an explosion behind him. He had no idea that he had been shot until he saw the blood trickling down his neck.
He described the gunman as a tall, slim, fair-complexioned individual with plaits and tattoos on his arms.
The gunman and an accomplice escaped on a CG motorcycle without number plates.
The attack on Chan occurred just 12 days after fisherman, Eddie Brandon, was shot in the leg and robbed of $7.6M he had withdrawn from branch of the Republic Bank at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara.
The robbers escaped after attacking Brandon near his home at Cove and John, East Coast Demerara.
No one has been arrested for any of the robberies.
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