An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

An at­tempt to kid­nap a Diego Mar­tin man on Wednes­day morn­ing was un­suc­cess­ful, af­ter he fought off his at­tack­ers and man­aged to es­cape.

The 37-year-old man, of Pat­na Vil­lage, left his black Toy­ota Rav 4 idling on Sa­landy Street, Diego Mar­tin, around 8.20 am and went in­to R Ja­groop Break­fast Shop.

While he was wait­ing to be at­tend­ed to in the shop, a white heav­i­ly tint­ed Y12 Nis­san AD Wag­on drove up and two armed men got out. They point­ed their firearms at the vic­tim and or­dered him to get in­to his ve­hi­cle, but he re­fused.

The men grabbed the vic­tim and dragged him to the wait­ing Y12 Nis­san AD Wag­on but he man­aged to break free and ran off as one of the men fired a shot in his di­rec­tion.

He lat­er re­turned to find his ve­hi­cle miss­ing. A spent 9 mm shell was re­cov­ered at the scene.