Gunmen attacked and robbed Bourda vendors late Wednesday night, shooting one of them who had gone to defend his colleagues, Guyana Police Force spokesman, Ivelaw Whittaker said.
Investigators were told that about 2245h.vendors Errol Gardner, 42, and his reputed wife Thakurdai Persaud,42,of Vigilance, East Coast Demerara were in their Canter motor lorry at the Bourda Market, North Road, Georgetown, when they were held up by three men, all armed with firearms.
The men took away a total of $320,000.00, a cell phone, and a quantity of jewellery.
While the armed robbery was taking place another vendor Saheed King, 30, of Maida, Corentyne, Berbice, made efforts to assist the victims and was shot to his stomach by one of the perpetrators, Whittaker added.
He was then robbed of $200,000.00 by the men who escaped in a waiting motor car.King has been admitted a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation GPHC). The probe continues, police said