A minibus conductor was shot and injured by a “passenger” during a robbery yesterday afternoon.
The injured man is 36-year-old Lalbachan Gobin of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara.

Lalbachan Gobin

According to reports, Gobin was the conductor of a minibus plying the Parika/ Georgetown route. The suspect, a passenger in the minibus, asked to get off as the bus approached the Flour Mill road in Eccles.

The passenger reportedly paid Gobin with a $1,000 note, and while the conductor was making change, the suspect grabbed all of the money from the conductor’s hands. Gobin retaliated and the man pulled out a firearm and shot the conductor in his abdomen before escaping.
It is believed that the suspect only escaped with $1,000.

Gobin was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was forced to undergo emergency surgery.
Up to press time the man was in the theatre undergoing surgery.