Shopper shot in Bourda Market robbery

A woman was shot and robbed of her handbag while shopping for lemons at the Bourda Market yesterday morning.

Fifty-one-year-old Sheriza Gourga Regis, a saleswoman of Garnett Street, Newtown, Kitty, was robbed of a handbag, containing cash and a cellphone. Police say that the robbery occurred around 10.45 am at the intersection of Bourda Street and North Road.

It was stated that Regis was at a stall shopping at Bourda Market when two men on a red and white XR motorcycle approached her.