Berbice: Police Investigators were Wednesday morning called to a house in Belvedere, Corentyne where the decapitated body of a woman was found.
The dead woman who was identified as 53-year- old Bhulmattie Deolall was found with several chop wounds about her body.
A sister of the deceased, Chandra Kumarie Hussain told reporters that she was at home when she received a phone call informing her of her sister’s death.
She said upon her arrival on the scene, her sister’s lifeless body was seen lying on the floor with blood smeared on the kitchen floor where the chopping took place.
The woman had been attacked in her yard, just before noon, in the presence of a child who subsequently alerted neighbors. According to the police, A 39 year old male neighbor has been arrested.
Investigations revealed that the victim was standing in her yard, when the suspect armed with a cutlass, approached and dealt her several chops to her neck, almost severing it. He then left and went home where he was promptly arrested by investigators, to whom he handed over the alleged murder weapon.
Family members gathered outside the cordoned-off home in disbelief.
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