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14-year-old loses arm after gun trap accident

Sep 07, 2008 News

A fourteen-year-old boy has become the second person to fall prey to a gun trap on the Essequibo Coast over the past three days.
Michael Jeffery of Supenaam Creek is currently a patient at the Suddie Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit after undergoing an amputation to his left arm.
Reports are that the accident occurred around 16:30 hours on Friday at Karani Creek on the Essequibo.
Sources told this newspaper that Jeffery and an elder brother left their home for the Karani back dam to cut wood. Jeffery’s brother was cutting wood with a chain saw some distance away from him.
The source said that a while after Jeffery approached his brother covered in blood and with a gaping wound to his left arm.
The injured man was immediately rushed to the Suddie Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery to have his hand amputated because of the extent of his injury.
According to the source, the injured lad’s brother told investigators that he did not hear any gunshots or strange noises. However, the doctor has since confirmed that the wound on the teen’s arm was a gunshot wound.
Only last Thursday, twenty-three-year-old Emanuel Williams was shot in the thigh after he came into contact with a gun trap while answering a call of nature in a clump of bushes at Tapcoma Lake on the Essequibo Coast. The police have since reported that despite an intense search of the area, no gun was found.
 Only a part of the trap was found. Williams is also hospitalized at the Suddie Hospital and is listed as stable.
In the wake of the two incidents, a senior police rank stressed that if the owners of the traps are caught they could be placed before the court and charged. 
The rank, however, explained that it is very difficult to find the persons who set the tarps since whenever such incidents occur, the trap is removed by the time the police reach the area to investigate. 
The source further explained that the areas where these traps are set are populated mainly by Amerindians and this is done as a means of living for them.
“The Amerindians hunt for wild animals and they make these traps in bushy areas; that is their way of living so that also makes it difficult for us to do our work,” the source explained.

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