Suspects held over murder of phone card vendor

The car that was allegedly trailing Danian Jagdeo

Seven persons have been held in connection with the murder of Danian Jagdeo, the phone card vendor who was shot during a robbery on Wednesday at Adventure, Corentyne, according to ‘B’ Division Commander Ian Amsterdam.

Amsterdam yesterday said the suspected murder weapon was also found and a car suspected to have been used to transport the two robbers was also impounded.

Around 3.30pm on Wednesday, Danian, a father of four, was shot and robbed of an undisclosed amount of phone cards and cash by bandits.