Two Guyanese men were on Tuesday night shot dead in Suriname. According to reports, the men were imbibing alcohol when they were gunned down.
The two men have been identified by the Guyana Police Force as Oswick Bazilio, called `One Foot’ and Jerimiah Smith. In 2022, Smith, who was 18 at the time and from Sophia, was held by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit in relation to the discovery of 40 kilos of cannabis in a motor vehicle along the Springlands Public Road. He was arrested and handed over to the Springlands police.
According to a report in the Suriname Herald newspaper, the bodies of the two were discovered, with multiple gunshot wounds, on the corner of Albrecht Dürerstraat and Rubensstraat in Paramaribo-North.
