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Birthday revellers attacked, robbed in Buxton

FIVE persons in a motor car visiting relatives at Coldingen, East Coast Demerara, were yesterday still reeling from shock after they took a wrong turn and ended up in a freshly dug ditch on the Brusche Dam railway embankment at Buxton, East Coast Demerara on Sunday night.

They were assaulted and robbed of money and jewellery by four gun-toting bandits who capitalised on their plight.

During the ordeal the victims begged for mercy from the gunmen who eventually ordered them out the area.

Reports said the three men and two women were returning to their Wales, West Bank Demerara home about 18:30 h Sunday when they took a wrong turn and came to a standstill in a ditch across the Brusche Dam railway embankment.

They had gone to relatives at Coldingen for a birthday celebration and fled after they were forced to abandon their vehicle by the gunmen.

They reported the robbery attack to the Vigilance Police Station and a police crash truck went to the scene and was able to tow the car away.

Fishmonger, Suresh Persaud and his policeman neighbour, Sundat Ramoutar, who were travelling in a car owned by Ramoutar’s sister last week, were killed and burnt beyond recognition in the vehicle by gunmen on the Stratsphey railway embankment after they were waylaid at a freshly-dug ditch on a road in Buxton

Tuesday, October 25, 2005