Rice farmer shot, robbed of $2.5M

A rice farmer was grazed by a bullet when he was attacked by bandits and robbed of $2.5 million yesterday.

Fyuse Hossein, 63, of Good Hope, East Coast Demerara, is currently hospitalised in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital after the attack, in which he was also beaten.

He had had just parked his vehicle at Water Street, Georgetown, yesterday afternoon,