St. Martin News Network

Cay Hill/Dutch Quarter:--- Relatives of Keshonarayan Kooblall (60) better known as Cyril are now praying that he would survive a brutal attack that left him with serious injuries to his brain.
According to Savita Kooblall daughter of the victim said, her father was struck on his head with a two by four plank on Monday night at a Union Farm residence. The young woman said her father went to the home of a relative to clear up some misconceptions when he was brutally attacked by a close relative she identified as Sundar Sahadeo. Kooblall said her father a Dutch national had brought in another relative from Guyana about a year ago for vacation but the man she said refused to leave the island. Savita said at some point the invited guest left her father's house and went to live at Sahadeo's residence in Union Farm and ever since then he has been spreading false information about her father.
She said Sahadeo was having a wake for someone that died and her father went to the home in an effort to clear up the feud and to give his condolences to relative of the dead when he was attacked by Sahadeo. The young woman further explained that her father fell unconscious when he was hit and those at the home where the incident occurred took ice water and poured it on her father. She said doctors at the St. Maarten Medical Center determined that her father was having internal bleeding in the brain and he needed to have surgery done abroad. The younger Kooblall said doctors at the St. Maarten Medical Center tried to send her father to Curacao and Aruba on Tuesday but there were no spaces at any of the hospitals in the Antilles. She said at that point the SMMC made contact with Colombia and an ambulance was sent from that island to pick up the patient on Wednesday.

An eyewitness of the incident on Monday told SMN News that Kooblall was standing at the gate when he was attacked. Asked if there was, any fight-taking place when Kooblall was struck the eyewitness said there was an argument inside the house and Sahadeo asked Kooblall to leave and he was already outside when he was attacked.
SMN News learnt that Sundar Sahadeo has surrendered to police on Wednesday and he is now in police custody.

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