Bandits shoot mother in mouth

GRIEF-STRICKEN: Seema Sukhnandan’s mother-in-law, left, and her mother Indranie Sharma after the shooting. (Winston Oudkerk photos)

 

SHOT IN MOUTH: Seema Sukhnandan in hospital yesterday afternoon
A MOTHER of one was shot in the mouth and on the right arm by bandits who stormed her shop in North East La Penitence, Georgetown in a daring daylight attack yesterday.

Seema Sukhnandan, 30, of Lot 295 Savage Street, North East La Penitence, had minutes before told her father by telephone about a strange-looking car that had already circled the area five times.

She was shot around 13:30 h by one of two men who went into the shop under the pretext of purchasing a bottle of gas. At the time, she was at home with her in-laws and three-year-old son.

Her father-in-law Dindial Sukhnandan told this newspaper that the two men entered the shop and requested a bottle of gas. He said the shop has a counter and a half door underneath, which Seema opened to take in the empty gas bottle from the would-be customers.


The first bandit then forced his way into the store and shot her on the right arm and told her to keep quiet. He was quickly followed by the other who demanded cash.

FATHER-IN-LAW Dindial Sukhnandan relating what happened
When they had gotten the cash, the first gunman who had entered the store, shot Seema in her jaw and fled, her father-in-law said.

According to Sukhnandan, he was upstairs when he heard the first gunshot and by the time he reached the shop, the men had disappeared. “I just pick her up and rushed her to the hospital,” he said.

He said that although the shop was broken into before, nothing of this magnitude had ever occurred. They have been living in the home for the past 36 years, he said.

Seema’s father, Chandrapaul Sharma, said that about 10 minutes before they got a telephone call informing them about the shooting, he had spoken to his daughter who told him that a white car was circling the neighbourhood.

Another relative also told this newspaper that while at the hospital, a stranger was seen questioning relatives and taking notes. The relative said that when he inquired about the stranger’s identity, the man claimed he was a Police officer.

However, when asked to produce identification, he claimed he had lost it. According to the relative, he kept pressing the man about producing some form of identification and he subsequently left.

Scores of relatives and friends turned up at the hospital yesterday to offer words of comfort to the family members.

On the night of February 10 last, female taxi driver Seerajie Singh was shot in the mouth by two carjackers on the Ogle Airstrip road, East Coast Demerara.

She died while being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

 

Sunday, March 12, 2006





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