Bandits shoot, chop bus driver in Plaisance attack

A minibus driver was shot and chopped on Thursday evening at Victoria Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, after he refused to comply with the orders of bandits.

Alfred Braithwaite, 37, of Vryheids Lust South, East Coast Demerara, is currently admitted as a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital in a stable condition.

He was shot once to his right leg and chopped.

The attack, the police said, was carried out around 6.45 pm by three men, two of whom were armed with guns and the other with a cutlass