Canal man carjacked, beaten on East Coast

The stripped front of the Toyota Allion car parked yesterday in Le Repentir Cemetry after it was deserted by the carjackers who stripped the vehicle of its valuables.

Police are currently investigating a robbery and carjacking that occurred around midnight yesterday in the vicinity of the University of Guyana Road, Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara (ECD), resulting in the driver of the car being badly injured.

Arshad Aziz, 23, of Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara was badly beaten and robbed of his money, cellular phone and Toyota Allion car when he stopped to urinate along the seawall road at Turkeyen last night after he had dropped his girlfriend home. He sustained injuries to his head, back, mouth, face and shoulders. His car was found yesterday morning in Le Repentir Cemetery stripped of its mirrors, battery, bumper, one of its back wheels,