Hope house burgled while family flying kites

Govind Singh

A family at Low Lands, Hope, East Coast Dem-erara was devastated after returning home after a kite flying exercise on Monday evening to find it ransacked and over $700,000 in cash and jewellery stolen.

Govind Singh, deputy Regional Executive Offi-cer of Region Five told Stabroek News that the jewellery belonged to his wife and two of their two daughters, ages 3 and 9-years-old. The children are still deeply traumatized.

He said they left home around 2 pm and when he returned at 7 pm he knew something was amiss. He noticed the gate broken and the front door open. The bandits had broken the padlock on his grill door to gain entry into the house.

The entire house was ransacked and when he checked he became distressed that the cash, most of which was from his salary,