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RK guard shot, robbed of millions …while escorting cash from Balwant Singh’s Hospital

 

A GUARD attached to a private security service was yesterday afternoon shot and robbed of cash he and a co-worker had just uplifted from the Balwant Singh Hospital near East and Middle Streets.The Guyana Chronicle was told that two RK Security guards who were escorting a bag of money in a company vehicle, were robbed after coming under fire by armed bandits near the former Crown Taxi Service, where a man had fatally shot five persons before killing himself almost two years ago.
Efforts to gather information on the incident from Roshan Khan’s Security Service and the Balwant Singh Hospital proved futile. However, ‘A’ Division Commander Clifton Hicken disclosed that two guards were transporting money from that hospital and had just driven off with the cash when the robbery took place.
Hicken said he had not received information about the name of the wounded man nor the sum of money stolen.
Meanwhile, Online news outfit Demerara Waves yesterday evening carried an urgent appeal for donations of O-Negative blood to help save the life of the Roshan Khan security guard who was shot by bandits near Balwant Singh Hospital, identifying him only as 25-year-old Mr. Trotman.
According to reports, the injured guard was driving the vehicle at the time he was shot in his shoulder, and walked to a city hospital just after the incident.

An eyewitness told this newspaper that around 13:40hrs, the guards had just picked up the money at the Balwant Singh Hospital and were heading towards Middle Street when gunshots rang out. He said he saw two or three gunmen approach the vehicle and shatter the windscreen with gunshots before demanding the money.

Said he, “I heard about six shots, and at first I thought it was squibs [fire crackers]; I did not realise it was a robbery until I heard one of them say, “Pass the bag, pass the bag,” about three times. I am not sure how much money it was, but I know they took a bag of money.”

Several taxi drivers were on the parapet just opposite where the robbery took place at the former Crown Taxi Service location.
Some ran, while others took cover by dropping to the ground when the shots rang out, as the bandits shattered the right-side windscreen of the car at the driver’s end, took the bag of cash and made good their escape west along Middle Street on two motorcycles.

The shot man drove the vehicle across Middle Street before stopping; and exiting the wagon, he walked in the direction of a city hospital.
The witness said about seven minutes after the robbery, a policeman on a motorcycle arrived on the scene.
When the Guyana Chronicle arrived around 14:27hrs, the damaged car was parked in front of a building on the corner of East and Middle Streets and a few persons were on the scene, including officials from RK Security Service.
Hire car drivers were gathered just across the street close to the scene of the robbery and a trail of blood was evident along the road from where the shooting took place to where the wounded man drove and parked the vehicle.
The shot security guard was already taken to a city hospital, while the other security guard wearing a bulletproof vest over his uniform sat in a silver-coloured car speaking with police. A few minutes later he was escorted to a police vehicle and taken away from the scene.
In the same vicinity in November 2013, miner Deryck Kanhai went berserk and shot dead Police Lance Corporal 20293 Michael Forde, Constable 18053 Sherwayne Pantlitz, 38-year-old Vanessa Vyphuis of North Ruimveldt, a dispatcher at Crown Cabs Taxi Service, which was at the time headquartered in the bottom flat of his house, and 75-year-old security guard Hugh Paul, popularly known as Bonny.

Kanhai had also wounded a taxi driver attached to the service in a fit of rage that reportedly erupted after his 25-year-old lover had walked out on him a week before.

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