Shastri Boodan
An elderly Chaguanas couple was robbed at gun point on Sunday.
Boodram Bhagaloo, 61, and his wife Khimrajee Ragoobar, 68, were asleep when three armed men entered their small board house through a window at Dinoo Road West around 3 am.
Bhagaloo told Guardian Media that three men entered his premises by jumping a chain link fence located on the eastern side of his house that borders the Northbound lane of the Uriah Butler Highway.
He said the street lights in that area have been non-functional for some time.
Bhagaloo said he was awakened by the men who robbed him of a Nissan B14 motor car, $1,200 in cash, a wacker, cellphone and an LPG gas tank.
Bhagaloo said he told the men that he and his common law wife were suffering from a number of ailments when they demanded that he get into the car with them.
He said, “They want me to go in the car, but ah tell them ah sick, they carry me back in the room and put me lie down on de bed and they drive out with the car. They ask me if I does pull bull I say no… they want to hit me gun butt, but they ent hit me.”
Bhagaloo said both himself and Ragoobar were tied up with electrical wire before the thieves left.
The victim said he managed to dabble with the wires and freed himself and later rescued Ragoobar before going to one of his neighbour’s house who called the police.
Bhagloo is a hardware employee. He said the thieves also knocked over the couple’s medication and he had to borrow a tank of LPG cooking gas from a neighbour to prepare lunch.
Bhagaloo said he and Ragoobar had planned to spend last night at the home of a relative since they were very much afraid.