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A 31-year-old woman is now in hospital being treated for multiple wounds after a purse snatcher stabbed her several times during a robbery in Barataria.

Police said at about 2.15 pm on May 3, the woman was walking south on the walkover on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, Barataria, near DHL, when a man who was walking in the other direction grabbed her bag.

The bag contained her TT national identification card, $20 cash and a Redmi Note 9 pro cellphone valued at $2,500.