A five-year-old girl and her fifty-two-year-old grandmother were wounded yesterday after a former neighbour invaded their home and discharged several rounds of pellets in their direction.
They were rushed to the Skeldon Hospital. Thirteen pellets were removed from the child’s left leg; the grandmother sustained injuries to her lower abdomen.
Savitrie Hassan, also known as ‘Seeta’, 52, of Lot 22 Section B, Number 72 Village, Corentyne said that around 3.30 am yesterday, her former neighbour invaded her house. She explained that she along with granddaughter, Renuka Hassan, also known as ‘Arianna’, 5, and her husband were sleeping on a “ground bed”. While her daughter and her baby were sleeping on another bed in the same room, and her son was sleeping in another room.
“We were sleeping and
