Cop stabbed at BV after trying to make peace

A bid to break up a row between two men on Thursday has landed a policeman in the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) with multiple stab wounds.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) said Marcos Richmond, 20, of Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, received stabbed wounds to his lower back and neck after he attempted to keep the peace between two men.

A GPF statement stated that around 7.40 pm on Thursday, Richmond was walking home from work along Quamina Street, Beterverwagting, where he witnessed the 35-year-old suspect and another man in an altercation.