Knife-wielding bandit slashes social worker’s face
Social worker Robeena Zaman is now left with a permanent scar after she was slashed to her face by a bandit on Tuesday during an attempted robbery.
Reports are the incident occurred in Albouystown, Georgetown about 07:30h as the mother of three was making her way to work.
Robeena Zaman shows the injury she received to her face during an attempted robbery
Speaking with Guyana Times, Zaman said that the bandit attempted to steal her shoulder bag and, in the process, cut her in the face.
“Normally, my husband would drop me out, but yesterday (Tuesday) was different day… so I decide to walk out, we living on Punt Trench, so I walking out to the public road a corner from where I’m living; I saw this youth playing music and he combing up he hair and I pay no heed and I proceed,” she related.
Zaman said it was her hijab that saved her life after the knife got entangled in her headwear. She said that the bandit pulled the knife and slashed upper lip. She received 26 stitches for her injuries. She said that in fighting off the bandit, she was also cut to one of her fingers.
“About 50 footsteps I made away from him and then he pounce on me just so and scramble on to my bag, my bag was in my right hand. I was going to help out some poor people, I asked my sister for some money and I had it in that bag and I was going to help this family knowing that I had the money, by instinct, I held on to the bag,” she recalled.
The woman noted that no one came to her assistance until the bandit left.
“There were people who witness but nobody did anything,” she expressed in disappointment.
According to Zaman, persons in the area related to her that they know her assailant and he would frequently rob persons at the same corner.
“He didn’t show no mercy to me; it is like he just keep firing the knife without any consideration for me,” she said.
After the incident, Zaman called her husband and made a report at the Ruimveldt Police Station.
She said that she and her family have been living in the area for almost eight years now.
“I traverse this road actually on a daily basis and this is the first time something like this happened…I got licks as a child, but I never got a scar. I am living with my husband and he never hit me. I am just disappointed, because I am a child care worker and I try to make a difference in youths’ lives; I try to help young people and it is sad to know a young person did this to me. Every time I look at this scar, I would remember that,” Zaman lamented.
