Berbice couple dead after NY murder-suicide

Schenectady County and city law enforcement officials investigate an apparent murder-suicide at 6 Mynderse Street in Schenectady, New York. (Times Union photo)

A 47-year-old Berbice woman was brutally murdered at her home at Mynderse Street, Schenectady, New York, on Thursday by a jealous boyfriend who cut her throat and later committed suicide.

Reports are that the woman, Rafeena Rahaman, of Line Path, Skeldon, was stabbed to her neck but it is not clear how her boyfriend, 38-year-old Ramcumar Bandhoo, also of Berbice ended his life. A Times Union report quoted authorities as saying that Bandhoo fatally stabbed Rahaman multiple times and cut her throat, then hanged