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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Vendor killed inside stall

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1882 days ago
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GUARDIAN

A veg­etable ven­dor was gunned down while con­duct­ing sales at his Pe­nal stall yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

De­vanand Soogrim, 53, died at the scene. A video cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia shows a bleed­ing Soogrim be­ing propped up by rel­a­tives in a sit­ting po­si­tion as he took his fi­nal breaths.

Po­lice said around 5.15 pm, Soogrim was at his veg­etable stall near his home at Su­chit Trace when a sil­ver Aqua mo­tor car pulled up and the front seat pas­sen­ger, who wore a black base­ball cap and a black mask, alight­ed and fired sev­er­al shots at Soogrim.

As he slumped to the ground, the gun­man re-en­tered the ve­hi­cle which sped off.

Sop­grim’s body was viewed by a dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer who or­dered it’s re­moval. An au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to be done to­day at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre.

Vis­it­ing the scene were Supt Ram­phal, Ag In­sp Jag­ger­nath, Cpl Bood­lal, Cpl Bridge­mo­han, PC Bernard, PC Deena and WPC Per­sad of the Pe­nal CID and Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion 3.


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