Up to press time this morning members of the Joint Services were in `C’ Field Sophia trying to restore calm after angry residents set six vehicles alight, stoned two houses and burnt a small shack with a horse stable attached, after alleging that ballot boxes were in the PPP/C command centre located in the area.
It was a chaotic scene as ranks fired warning shots at the massive crowd which remained unmoved. Two men, Terrence Clarkson and Glaston Peters had to be rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after pellets struck them in the eye. Stabroek News also saw three persons including two young women who had pellet wounds to varying parts of their bodies.
Clarkson told Stabroek News that he was standing a bit back from the crowd when the police just opened fire. Peters who was using his
