Three Guyanese miners were shot dead, while three other persons were wounded in an early morning attack on Wednesday, when their camp at Imataka, on the Venezuelan side of the border, was raided by gunmen.
Vernon Eudoxie, 48, Colwyn Solomon, 23, both of Fitzburg, Port Kaituma, and Samuel Moses, 19, of Four Miles Oronoque, Port Kaituma, were shot dead as they slept and one of the survivors said he and the other miners had to “play dead” to avoid being killed themselves by the Spanish-speaking gunmen.
