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After
killing
of
fourth
cop--
Gajraj tasked with tighter security at Police stations By Mark Ramotar CABINET has tasked Minister of Home Affairs Mr. Ronald Gajraj with ensuring heightened security at Police stations and outposts countrywide following the armed assault on the Alberttown, Georgetown Police Station Thursday night. One Policeman was killed and another injured in that attack.
Police Constable Andy Atwell was killed in a most despicable and heinous way shortly after 22:00 hours Thursday, when gunmen armed with high-powered weapons drove up outside the Alberttown Police
High-powered weapons, property of the Guyana Defence Force
Station in a `movie-like scenario’ and opened a hail of gunfire, gunning down the Policeman, injuring another on duty and riddling the building with bullet holes. A
Police
statement
issued
yesterday
morning
said
the
gunmen
drove
up
in
two
motorcars,
one
was
in
front
of
the
station
on
Fourth
Street
and
the
other
on
Albert
Street.
They
reportedly
“blazed
away
at
the
Station
from
both
sides”.
Minister of Home Affairs, Ronald Gajraj (second from right) offers words of comfort to two distraught siblings, Forbes (seated) and another at extreme right, of the late Police Constable Andy Atwell. With the Minister are (from left) Acting Commissioner of Police, Floyd Mc Donald and Officer -in-Charge at the Alberttown Police Station, Deputy Superintendent Kenwin Hope. (Picture
by
Corwin
Williams) Atwell
tried
to
evade
them,
but
was
caught
by
gunfire
from
the
other
car
on
Albert
Street
and
collapsed
in
the
Station
compound,
the
Police
said. According to the Police, the gunmen then sped away in the two cars. Atwell seemed to have been hit by bullets at least four times with one bullet penetrating his chest. He was rushed by taxi to the Georgetown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The other Policeman, who shot in the arm, was treated at the Georgetown Hospital and was subsequently discharged Saturday June 01, 2002 |
