Shot rice farmer stable

Fyuse Hossein, 63, the rice farmer who was shot and robbed at Church Street on Friday, is in now a stable condition at a private hospital, his wife Omeela Hossein has said.

Hossein said the hospital is currently monitoring her husband because he lost a lot of blood. He is now receiving transfusions.

The woman had initially said that her husband was gun-butted and a bullet grazed his head, however, she has since learnt that the bullet cut through the top of his neck and caused him to sustain a serious injury. The farmer had just parked his vehicle at Water Street, Georgetown, when he was