Three armed men on Saturday afternoon staged an attack on a Strathspey household, forcing a mother to jump from her home to safety after they opened fire on her house. The attack came during a visit by the PNCR leader to the village which had been hard-hit by criminal attacks from Buxton.
Irene Ramohan, of Lot 80 Third Street, Strathspey, East Coast Demerara, jumped from her house and scaled the fence at the back of her home, seeking refuge from the gunmen who discharged a barrage of bullets into the front of the building.
No one was injured in the incident which occurred Saturday afternoon, during a walkabout in the village by a PNCR delegation led by party leader Robert Corbin.
Ramohan said the incident occurred shortly after she had returned home from the market. She said as she scaled the steps of her home, a man called out to her but she paid no attention to him. Shortly afterwards she entered her house gunshots rang out and after speaking to neighbours, she directed her teenage daughter to summon a Guyana Defence Force patrol in the area and to make a report to the Vigilance Police station.
While her daughter had set out to accomplish the task, the man returned, she said, and with two others opened fire on the house where she remained with her other daughter.
When the gunfire subsided she said she quickly jumped from the house into her yard and scaled her back fence, from where she made her way to neighbours.
Ramohan's daughter, who was tasked with reporting the first incident, had been making her way back home when she heard the shots. She had been told by police she was too young to make a report and upon hearing the discharge ran home to find the front of her home riddled with bullets.
Another relative later summoned police, who immediately went to the scene in an effort to apprehend the men who eluded capture.