The police are still to speak to the Director of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry who it was said escaped his abductors after being kidnapped on Wednesday night.
Police yesterday said that they have been unable to make contact with Dev Sharma since his reported escape from a Buxton house.
His wife, Maria Sharma, underwent emergency surgery for a bullet wound to her thigh she received during the kidnapping. According to reports the man was snatched from his vehicle as he was about to enter his yard by two armed men. It is reported that Sharma told relatives he was taken to a house in Buxton from which he escaped after one of the men his kidnappers left to guard him fell asleep. It is understood that he was tortured and his body bore cigarette burns.
It was stated that the man ran through a cane field in his bid to escape and later ended up on Agriculture Road, Mon Repos where he was able to make a phone call and was later picked up by relatives.
President of the University of Guyana Students Society (UGSS), Robert Bourne has condemned the latest attacks pointing out that Maria is a student of the university and Sharma a former student. “We of the UGSS and the entire student body are saddened by the attack on another UG student...” he said.
At the moment the UGSS has an ongoing protest over the police killing of UG student, Yohance Douglas.
Bourne said the UGSS was against any form of “criminality” and as such they condemned the shooting and kidnapping.
“Just as we are against extra-judicial killings we are against crime committed on any citizen in Guyana...”