A Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara shopkeeper and her family are now counting their losses following a break-in at their home on Friday evening while the family of four went out to view the annual Diwali motorcade along the East Coast Demerara Public road.
According to Zorina Mohamed, who along with her husband operates a grocery shop and a welding establishment at their Lot 596, Block 8, Mon Repos home, she and her family members left their home around 7 pm on Friday to view the Diwali motorcade along the lower East Coast Public road. She said they left their single flat home secured with a few lights on within and outside the building.
Mohamed said that shortly after 11 pm when they returned home, they were left in shock. On entering the house, they observed their entire home ransacked; the lights had been turned off. She said that some $800,000 in jewellery and cash, which were kept in a room within the home, were missing. In addition, a video camera, a diabetes test kit and a cellular phone were also reported as missing from the home.
According to a distraught Mohamed, her husband had been operating the welding establishment several months now while she had been operating the shop some five years to date. She said that the matter was reported to the Beterverwagting Police Station several hours after the discovery on Friday night and the police have since taken several persons in for questioning. She said the police also visited their home to take fingerprints as they carried out investigations into the incident.
