Mahaica vendor shot in robbery, two bandits held

A Stabroek Market vendor was last evening shot to his leg and robbed of an undisclosed sum of cash at his Vereeniging, Mahaica home and two of the alleged robbers were caught sometime after in a neighbouring village.

A cousin of the man gave his name as Pappy Singh and said that it appears that the bandits traced the man from the city after he had retired from the day’s work. The woman said it was about four armed robbers who carried out the attack on Pappy and drove off in the direction of the capital.

He was shot in his left leg and his