Armed gang shoots market vendor at No. 58 Village, beats wife

Mohabir Dhanraj in hospital last night

Four armed men last evening stormed into the No. 58 Village, Corentyne home of market vendors Mohabir Dhanraj and his wife, shooting the man in his leg and beating the woman before escaping with cash and jewellery.

Relating the incident to this newspaper, Farida Dhanraj said she and her husband Mohabir Dhanraj called ‘Bozo’ were sitting in the house when four men burst into the yard sometime around 19:00 hours.

She said that the one of the men was armed with a gun while the others had cutlasses and a Rambo knife. The men escaped after seizing a quantity of jewellery and cash but