Bel Air man shot dead by police after `confrontation’

Kampta Persaud

A man was yesterday shot to the head by police ranks after he allegedly attacked them with a cutlass.

According to a release from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, a 45-year-old man was rushed to the hospital at around 21:31 hrs having sustained a gunshot wound to the head.

The man, later identified as Kampta Persaud of Bel Air Village, was unresponsive when he was taken to