Soldier stabbed by former army man

Mark Pierre

A 31-year-old soldier is nursing a stab wound to the right side of his stomach and gashes to the head after he was attacked by an ex-soldier at a football match on Friday evening last at the National Cultural Centre tarmac.

Mark Pierre, of James Street, Albouystown, was yesterday transferred from the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital to the Male Surgical Ward. However, the man said he is still in a lot of pain.

When Stabroek News visited the injured man, he recalled being at the ‘Guinness Greatest of the Streets’ football match when a