– worker admitted to hospital

Up to late yesterday afternoon, Amanda Sooklall, the snackette owner who had sustained the brunt of an attack launched by bandits at Magic Mall, La Grange West Demerara on Thursday was still unconscious at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre (DDC), East Bank Demerara.

Meanwhile, her employee, 16-year-old Tamar Thom, who had been treated and sent away from the DDC on Thursday, was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) that same night after her condition worsened.

According to a relative who requested to remain anonymous, because of the severe head injuries she sustained, Sooklall had not regained consciousness. The relative said that they were making plans to have her transferred to a city hospital and added that up to late yesterday afternoon, the police had not arrested anyone in connection with the violent robbery.

In the attack, Sooklall was dealt several blows to her head and other body parts.

Meanwhile, Thom, also a robbery victim who works for Sooklall in a snackette at the mall, was taken back to the West Demerara Regional Hospital on Thursday night and subsequently transferred to the GPH after she developed complications, apparently as a result of the head injuries she received as well.

On Thursday, Thom had been taken to the DDC where she was treated and sent away but her mother related to this newspaper yesterday that her condition had worsened and as a result she had to be taken to the GPH where she was admitted.

Two men armed with a gun and knife and posing as customers, swept through the La Grange shopping facility on Thursday beating those who opposed them and gathering booty.

Police had said in a press release on Thursday night that they were investigating the armed robbery and had recovered a bag with some of the booty.