A teenager operating a hire car, PTT 6559, had the vehicle hijacked at gun point in New Amsterdam on Tuesday night.
Relating the terrifying incident, Kallicharan Sookchand, also called ‘Amid’, told Guyana Times that the men bound his hands and threw him in a clump of bushes.
Sookchan
According to Sookchand, at about 20:00h he dropped off the owner of the car and at
the corners of Main and New Streets, New Amsterdam, when he was stopped by a man.
“Then the man say he got to go he got to go and pick up two girls in the scheme, so I
say ‘aright leh we go.’ When we reach ah had to wait fuh about five minutes and the
two other man come in the car.”
He explained that the initial passenger directed him to Angoy’s Avenue and stopped
at the junction of Angoy’s Avenue and Post Office Road where the two men boarded
the vehicle before taking control.
“One of them put a gun to me and one of them start choke me from at the back.
And they tape down me mouth.” Sookchand was taken to Savannah Park where he was
relieved of his cellular phone valued at $55,000 and $2000 cash, along with the car.
The car is valued at $2.8 million and is owned by Shawn Nandalall of Sheet Anchor, East Canje.
According to the 17-yearold, two of the men left with the car while the third bandit
guarded him. He related that the bandit then received a phone call and based on what
he heard, the bandit was instructing the person on the other end of the line on how to
open the gas tank.
“The cable for the gas tank not working so you have to use the key and open it, but by
is a new model car they think that must by some button to open it. He pull the duct tape
from my mouth fuh me to tell him how to open the gas tank. I holla fuh help and he fire a
shot and ask me if I want he to do it the easy way or the hard way,” the teen related.
With mud still covering most of his body, the frightened teenager said it was three hours after the initial encounter that the man who was with him said he was leaving and removed the duct tape from Sookchand’s mouth. He further told him not to try and loosen the duct tape from his hands until after 15 minutes.
Sookchand complied with the request even as the bandit made good his escape.
The matter was reported to the Police and immediately there was an all-station
alert, but despite searches in and around New Amsterdam, there was no trace of the car.
(Andrew Carmichael)
