A father of three is now hospitalised with a gunshot wound, following an early morning attempted robbery on the West Bank of Demerara on Wednesday, by two armed and masked men.
Peter Mangal, a 38-year-old farmer of Lot F Bordeaux, Canal Number One, was shot once to his right arm after two bandits entered his two-storey concrete home.
According to a Police report, Kevin Mangal, 68, the father of the now wounded man, was in the bottom flat of the house when the gunmen pounced on him and dealt him several lashes to his head and body with a handgun.
The men then ordered him to take them upstairs where they demanded cash from Peter Mangal.
According to a Police statement, “the two men headed upstairs escorting Karan where they met Peter Mangal and they began demanding cash; as a result, Peter began to scuffle with the suspect who was armed with the handgun and he received a gunshot injury to his right arm above his elbow.”
After the shot was fired, the suspects fled the house without taking any valuables.
Moti Mangal, the brother of the now hospitalised man, told Guyana Times International on Wednesday afternoon that the Police went to the house where they dusted for fingerprints. He said the family was hoping the Police would find the perpetrators.
Investigations are ongoing.
