Middle Rd family shot at, robbed after returning from airport

Rowtie Singh closing the gate to her Middle Road, La Penitence home hours after her relatives were attacked and shot by bandits as they turned into the yard.

Bandits yesterday morning launched a bloody attack on a family that had just returned from the Timehri airport, injuring two men before escaping with two bags from a motor car that was about to turn into the family’s Middle Road, La Penitence home.

Forty-two-year-old Sathram Persaud was rushed to a private hospital with a bullet injury to his right leg while his cousin, Prem Persaud, 28, was grazed by a bullet to his neck. Sathram was admitted and is in a stable condition