Businessman robbed, shot; gun taken

A businessman was robbed and shot by two bandits who took away jewellery, his gun and an undisclosed sum of cash as he left his store at Lombard and Haral streets at about 2 pm yesterday.

Albert Ramkarran, 56, of Herstelling, East Bank Demerara was up to last evening undergoing surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The owner of A & C Ramkarran General Merchants was shot just above his left knee, his wife Camille Ramkarran said.

She recounted that her husband was leaving the business place around 2 pm yesterday and was about to enter his car when he was attacked by the two men who had parked their car in front of the