Bandits hit sleeping Zeeburg family
December 1, 2015 By
A Zeeburg, West Coast Demerara family is traumatised after armed bandits invaded their home early Monday morning.
Speaking with Guyana Times Anita Dindyal of Lot 121 Zeeburg Old Road, said they were asleep when her brother alerted them that bandits were in their home. The woman explained there are three houses in the yard – her brother living at the back with his family, her son at the side with his family, and her home.
The window which the bandits removed to gain entry into the house
Dindyal said that around 04:00h, her brother, a fish vendor, was getting ready to leave home when he saw two strange men in the yard.
“One of them was by the gate and the other one was by my door (which was opened). He didn’t realise what was happening so he ask them what they doing here. Then he saw the one by the gate with a gun and he drop everything and run at the back,” she noted.
The woman said her brother waited in hiding for about five minutes and then he called out to her son, alerting him of what was happening.
She said when her husband was alerted he noticed several of the louvers were removed as well as a wooden bar that was across the window. The door was also opened.
Dindyal added that most of their neighbours are relatives as such her daughter-in-law began screaming for help.
“Everybody start run out with cutlass and bats and so but the bandits them left already,” she noted.
The woman pointed out that they did not hear anything that would have alerted them that someone was in the house. She noted that her husband was sleeping alone in the room they broke into, while she was in another room with her 13-year-old daughter.
Dindyal disclosed that the men were able to get away with three pairs of gold earrings and two gold rings. “It look like they didn’t get to take anything much because only that they gone with… after my brother saw them, they probably get away,” she remarked.
The woman stated she is not sure how many persons were there, noting that her brother only saw two. However, Dindyal went on to say a woman in the area recalled seeing a strange red car in the community on Sunday.
She noted that her brother recalled that the man at the gate was armed and had on a black armless shirt. Further she added that another resident in the community said he saw a red car sometime around 03:30h about two streets from her house.
Dindyal told this newspaper that robberies are frequent in the area and along the West Coast. She noted that only on Sunday around 17:00h bandits attacked an overseas visitor about three streets away from her home.
In addition, she recalled that when they got to the station to make the complaint, they were three sets of people there with complaints of robbery also – from Anna Catherina; Tuschen Housing Scheme, and the Meten–Meer-Zorg Mosque, where several computers were stolen, among other things.