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Bandits shoot bus driver, rob passengers

Shot bus driver: Firoz Ghani

Two young gunmen, posing as passengers, yesterday shot a route 32 bus driver in the back, before fleeing with valuables belonging to the other travelers during a brazen daylight robbery.
The incident occurred around 11:45 hrs at Flour Mill Road, Agricola, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
Firoz Ghani, 48, of Lot 332 Ruby, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) was shot once in the back by one of the armed men. He is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
According to information, two men boarded the minibus at Parika and asked to be put off at Flour Mill Road.
Just as the driver stopped at the requested location, one of the men pulled out a gun and instructed him to reverse.
Ghani allegedly tried to drive off when the gunman shot him. The bullet passed through the back of the driver’s seat and struck him in the back.
The armed men allegedly grabbed the passengers’ valuables before fleeing into Flour Mill Road.
The father of two was rushed to the hospital in a taxi by his son, who was the conductor of the minibus.
When this newspaper visited the hospital yesterday, Ghani was in the Accident and Emergency Unit being prepped for surgery.
His son, Rafael Ghani, explained that he and his father were loading the bus at Parika when the two men entered. He said that they thought the men had come from the interior.
“When we reached at Agricola, they said they coming off at Flour Mill Road so when my father stopped, one of them grabbed the passenger’s bag who was sitting next to me and the other one, who was in the third seat, pulled out a gun,” the younger Ghani said.
He added that the bandit with the gun, instructed his father to reserve into Flour Mill Road.
“Like he (shot driver) didn’t see the gun and he tried to drive off but I shout and tell he to stop because the man got a gun. When my father stopped, he shoot him and then grabbed some valuables for other passengers and they run away,” the conductor explained.
Someone who was passing at the scene, in another minibus at the time, recalled seeing a man with plait-hair, holding a gun in his hand and running behind another male into Flour Mill Road.
The amount of money and valuables, the men escaped with, is still to be confirmed.
Early last month, 17-year-old Abdul Kareem Shivrattan was shot in the chest while trying to assist passengers who were robbed at gunpoint when the minibus they were traveling in, stopped at Flour Mill Road.
At that time, the two bandits had boarded the minibus at Diamond.