Canecutter kills self after stabbing wife, two others

The remains of the home

A Kortberaad canecutter yesterday hanged himself after stabbing his reputed wife and two others and torching a home at Number 7 Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB).

The police in a statement said that around 20:50h on Sunday, cane harvester Nandlall Ragnauth, 48, of Kortberaad, East Bank Berbice (EBB), went to the home of his reputed wife’s mother at Number 7 Village, WCB, where he broke into the home and attacked his reputed wife Hushmanie Rasheed, 28, with a knife. The statement went on to say that Rasheed’s brother Devanand Tuldas, 25, and a friend Bharat Narine, 34, of Number 2 Village, WCB, were stabbed to their bodies during the incident. Narine who was stabbed three times and once in the region of heart is currently hospitalized at the New Amsterdam Hospital.

Ragnauth, police said, then set the house on fire and hanged himself from a