Attacker exterior Guyana State Home recognized as Nigerian
The person who attacked a presidential guard and opened hearth exterior the gates of Guyana’s State Home on Thursday morning has been recognized as Nigerian Bethel Ikena Chinezie.
Nevertheless, lawmen are nonetheless making an attempt to find out the motive for his assault that led to the policeman recognized as Telon Perreira nursing critical stab wounds, and one native report quoted a supply within the Guyana Police Pressure (GPF) saying {that a} request has been dispatched to the Worldwide Legal Police Group (INTERPOL) for extra info on the Nigerian.
“The GPF has requested by way of INTERPOL a complete background test on him; additionally, whether or not he has any prison historical past or whether or not he’s linked to any prison group,” a senior police officer informed Demerara Waves On-line Information.
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Reviews point out that Chinezie final labored at a neighborhood cleansing firm.
He stays hospitalized with critical accidents together with Perreira who he stabbed 5 occasions within the neck and physique.
Based on an announcement from the GPF, Chinezie turned up on the southeastern guard hut at State Home, President Irfaan Ali’s official residence, round 7:30 a.m. and confronted the safety element, telling them, “I need the President”.
He subsequently turned agitated and pulled a knife from the waist of his pants, stabbing a policeman 5 occasions. Chinezie then grabbed the officer’s gun and discharged a number of rounds earlier than he was shot when different presidential guards returned hearth.
Each have been taken to hospital the place President Ali visited.
In an announcement on the incident, the opposition A Partnership for Nationwide Unity and the Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) condemned “within the strongest potential phrases, a resort to violence in any circumstances”.
It added that it welcomed the information that President Ali and his household are protected.
“We additionally take the chance to commend the presidential safety guard for his braveness and need him a full and speedy restoration from his critical accidents,” the APNU+AFC assertion concluded.
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