Two policemen and youth gunned down
By Samantha Alleyne and Kim Lucas
Two more policemen and a 17-year-old were shot dead yesterday morning after a large gang of heavily-armed marauders laid siege to the Corentyne town of Rose Hall, pillaging and raking buildings with gunfire before escaping via the Atlantic Ocean. During the siege, a pensioner collapsed from heart failure and died and several persons were injured.
Dead are Police Constables Outar Kissoon, 46, of Number 52 Village, Corentyne and Ramphal Pardat, 52, of 106 Ganpat Street, Rose Hall Town. Kishun and Pardat were stationed at the Whim Police Station and the Rose Hall Police Outpost, respectively. Seventeen-year-old Balram Kandhai, a delegate at the PPP Congress, which ended the evening before, was killed when the vehicle he was travelling in was riddled with bullets. Also dead is 72- year-old Mohan Latchman called ‘Ganesh’, of Portuguese Quarters, Port Mourant who suffered a heart attack.
