West Berbice vendors chopped, terrorised in home invasion

The house where the bandits carried out the attack.

A West Berbice vendor is in critical condition after she and her husband were chopped by bandits during a home invasion yesterday that also saw their daughters being terrorised and robbed. One man is now in police custody.

The attack happened at about 3:45hrs at the home of Abdool Kadir, 47, and his wife Neeranie Kadir, 46, at No. 2 Village, West Coast Berbice. The couple was at the time preparing for the market and during the ordeal they were chopped about their bodies.

The police said that when they arrived on the scene they came under fire and there