Another woman has been chopped by her husband in an attempt to kill her while the husband was found dead in their Berbice home on Saturday.
Dead is 27-year-old Ganesh Narine of Lot 426 Bush Lot Village, Corentyne, while his wife, Nalicia Ragoonauth, is a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital after undergoing emergency surgery.
Injured: Nalicia Ragoonauth
Only on Thursday an East Coast Demerara man slit his wife’s throat with a kitchen knife before attempting suicide but was apprehended by Police.
However, on the Corentyne on Saturday, Narine did not attempt to flee.
Reports are that shortly after midnight, Narine and his wife were heard arguing at their home shortly after returning from a birthday party at a neighbour’s house. During the argument, Narine reportedly threatened to kill Ragoonauth. The couple’s eight-year-old daughter rushed for help after she was awakened by a loud sound and then saw her mother exiting her bedroom covered in blood. Her father was seen with a cutlass in pursuit.
As the child ran for help, the injured woman rushed out of the house and onto the street where she collapsed.
Meanwhile, her brother, Bheem Ragoonath, said he was still at the birthday party when he was alerted about the incident.
“When I reach I see a helpless body on the ground covered in blood and then when I watch I see that is my sister,” the man related. He said she was rushed to the Port Mourant Public Hospital and subsequently transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital where she remains a patient. Ragoonauth suffered injuries to both wrists, forearms and neck.
Meanwhile, Police went to the home, where they found Narine dead. The body was cut down from the ceiling and taken to the Port Mourant Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
