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Armed bandits terrorise Houston family
The injured Ravi Boodhoo displaying the bullet wound on his head.
A 33-year-old man escaped with his life on Saturday night when five gunmen invaded his home and shot him after placing a pillow over his head.

Injured is Ravi Boodhoo, of 28 Back Street, Houston Housing Scheme, Greater Georgetown.

Ravi was shot in the head while in the bedroom of his three-bedroom flat concrete home.

The bullet only grazed his head, and he was treated at a hospital and sent home.

His mother, Mohandai Boodhoo, told the Chronicle that around 22:30 h on New Year’s Eve she was sitting on the patio with her sister, her son, and daughter-in-law, granddaughter when five heavily masked and armed men entered their yard after scaling a neighbour’s fence. They took them all into the house and demanded money and jewels.

The 59-year-old woman said the robbers began beating her after she told them that they had no money.

“One of them was going to bite off the rings on my fingers, but I took them off and handed them to him,” she recalled.
Boodhoo displaying her finger without her rings.
The woman said they then turned their attention to her 27-year-old daughter-in-law and took away her cell phone and DVD player.

When the 27-year-old woman told them that she had no cash they threatened to kill her husband and began beating. At this point they placed a pillow over his head and shot him.

Boodhoo said she thought her son was dead when she heard the gunshot and made a dash for the door to escape, but was hauled into the house by one of the bandits.

Boodhoo told the Chronicle that the bandits then stormed into another bedroom where her sick 50-year-old husband was lying and put a gun to his head and asked for money. But one of his accomplices said they must go. They said they would take away Boodhoo’s nine-year-old granddaughter.

But the family begged them not to and they left her alone.

The robbers fled with about $90,000 in jewellery.

“We are still reeling from shock and the incident has left nine-year-old Sabrina tramautised,” Boodhoo said.

The family believes that the bandits came from a neighbouring village, as they seemed to be familiar with the area.

The police responded about two hours after the Saturday night attack and recovered a warhead from the scene.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006