Cardiff bus cease taking pictures sees man shot in head twice as folks ‘noticed the blood’

A pensioner was shot twice in the head during a horrific incident at a bus stop in Cardiff.

Kasara Almasian was shot in the back and side of his head as the people around him “saw the blood” come from his head. The 74-year-old has bee hit with two metal pellets from an air rifle as doctors had to remove from his skull.

Almasian survived the horror incident as he was on his way to “window shop” in Cardiff city centre. He had just parked his Fiat Punto on Roath Court Road before taking the bus, which is how he usually travels into the Welsh capital, Wales Online reports.

He walked down Newport Road and began to cross the street near Parklane Guest House, when he heard a “loud bang”. Almasian immediately felt the impact of a pellet hitting him.

“I got to the bus stop shelter and touched the back of my head, it was bleeding,” said Mr Almasian, who used to work in the car industry. I thought it could have been rubble coming from the tyre of a car or something.”

“There was nobody else at the bus stop, just me on the street,” he said.

As Almasian turned to face the bus that had pulled up, he felt the second shot hit the left side of his head.

“It was about an inch from my eye and my ear,” he said.

In the confusion, Almasian got on the bus heading for town but the people on board became very concerned.

“People were concerned as they saw the blood,” he said. “I got off at the next stop. I just panicked. I went back to my car and drove to my GP in Roath.”

A nurse at the GP office took one look at Almasian and sent him to A&E at the University Hospital of Wales.

Over the course of one hour, doctors recovered two pellets from Almasian’s skull in an operation under local anaesthetic. Police attended the hospital and took a statement from Almasian in response to his report of an assault.

A spokesperson for South Wales Police said: “Extensive enquiries were carried out, including CCTV reviews and house to house enquiries. Unfortunately, despite this, no suspect was identified.”

Police told Almasian the investigation will be reviewed, should any further lines of enquiry be identified.

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