The manager of a grocery store and two women from his family were discovered dead, with their throats slit, on the night of Friday January 19 to Saturday January 20 in Cayenne in Guyana, in accommodation adjoining the small town center business, he said. we learned from a police source.
The victims are a man born in 1961, manager of the business, his sister born in 1966, and a young woman from their family born in 2004, Commissioner Romy Laguens of the Cayenne judicial police told AFP on Saturday. specifying that the three people had had their throats slit.
According to the firefighters, these are traders
of “Asian origin
”.
Frequent targets of violence
“
The emergency services received calls around 3:30 a.m.
”, without it being possible, for the moment, to know whether these calls came from the victims or other people, said the commissioner.
At the very beginning of the investigations, it is not possible to establish the motive for this triple murder nor to advance whether it was perpetrated by one person or several attackers.
The investigation was entrusted to the criminal brigade of the Cayenne judicial police.
The president of the Territorial Collectivity of Guyana, Gabriel Serville, reacted to the tragedy, in a press release, by hoping that the perpetrator(s) “
are quickly apprehended
”.
In Guyana, many neighborhood grocery stores are run by traders of Asian origin, and are frequently the target of violence.
In August 2022, one of them was killed in his business during a shooting following a robbery.
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