Brazilian miner shot at Port Kaituma

A Brazilian miner is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), after he was shot in the back at a mining camp at Butterfly Backdam, Port Kaituma.

Adriano Da Silva, 26, sustained a single gunshot wound to the left side of his lower back; the bullet exited through his left side chest. According to the man, he was at the mining camp at around 8pm on Wednesday, September 21, in the company of five or six other miners,