Seventeen-year-old Samantha Roopnarine, who was hospitalized on Sunday evening with burns about the body after another relative threw a pot of dhal in her direction has been discharged.
Roopnarine and her 67-year-old grandmother Rampiwarie Puran, of Prospect, East Bank Demerara, were rushed to the Woodlands Hospital on Sunday afternoon nursing burns to various parts of their bodies after the latter’s grandson threw the liquid in their direction.
Roopnarine was discharged from the hospital yesterday, her relatives noted and the young woman sustained second degree burns to various parts of her body, including her neck, hands and her back. Puran sustained first degree burns follow the attack and she was treated and sent away.
This newspaper understands that the young man also sustained burns to parts of his body and his relatives noted yesterday that he later sought treatment at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre.
The matter was reported to the Providence Police Station on the day of the incident and ranks had attempted to arrest him but he escaped from the medical institution by slipping through the hospital fence.
The assailant was recently released from prison and is given to behaving in this manner when intoxicated.
