Gunmen shoot, terrorise Bourda market vendors

The traumatized Errol Gardner and his wife Thakurdai Persaud.

Gunmen on Wednesday night shot and injured  a vendor on North Road after terrorising and robbing two others  of over half a million dollars in cash and jewellery,  renewing calls by business persons operating in the Bourda Market area for police protection particularly at nights.

Up to press time last evening 30-year-old father of three, Saheed King of Maida, Corentyne, Berbice was recovering in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Hospital after undergoing emergency surgery to remove a bullet from his stomach. His condition was listed as critical but stable.

Police said in a press release issued yesterday that around 2245 hours vendors Errol Gardner, 43 years, and his wife Thakurdai Persaud, 42 years of Vigilance, East Coast Demerara were in