Nigg man shot by bandits, wife beaten

Tangamah (right) and her niece Indranie Hassan during an interview with Stabroek News earlier this year.

-police response slammed

A Corentyne man was shot by bandits and his wife badly beaten in a home invasion that lasted for more than half an hour with police taking over an hour to respond.

Samnarine Samaroo, 47, is currently a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital with a gunshot wound to his thigh while his wife Tangamah Madramootoo, 52, both of Nigg Squatting Area, Corentyne is hospitalised at the New Amsterdam Hospital with injuries to the head.

Police said that at about 11pm on Saturday, four men armed with two firearms and two knives broke through the door and entered the home of Samaroo and Madramootoo at