The man, Chandrapaul Persaud called `Kero Man’, 34, was shot several times, reportedly in his chest, by the bandits who had already robbed him of money and jewellry.

Persaud’s wife, Nazeema tearfully told the Chronicle yesterday evening that her husband was felled in a hail of bullets when he ran after the bandits.

Persaud runs a small grocery shop and also owns a Canter truck with which he sells kerosene in several East Coast Villages.

Ms. Persaud said she was at home with their three children when three gunmen rode up to the shop on bicycles. She said her husband had just returned from doing business outside of the village and was in the yard of their Block 12, Non Pariel home when the gunmen pounced. While one of the men stood guard over Persaud, the other two entered the house, ransacked it and took away money and jewellery. She said they fired shots into the air as they drove away with her husband’s new car.
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