Bandits pounce on Rose Hall family with visiting relative

Ryan Rupert

Four men armed with guns, cutlasses and knives on Thursday evening pounced on a Rose Hall Town, Corentyne family who had an overseas-based relative visiting and carted off cash, jewellery and cellphones.

Ryan Rupert, 37, of Lot 60 Charpol Street, Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, yesterday told Stabroek News, that his family had just had dinner after which his wife, Oumawattie Khulduith, headed upstairs.

While upstairs Khulduith shouted to her husband that she noticed someone jumping over their fence. “She shout and seh Ryan look somebody jump over the fence but when she see them with the mask she start holler thief, thief,”