Explosive thrown at senior citizen’s home

Nov 17, 2012 News

A senior citizen of Rosignol Village, West Bank Berbice, nearly suffered a heart attack after someone threw a bomb, or some sort of explosive device on the roof of his one-flat home on Thursday evening. Wilfred Mangra, 74, the lone occupant, stated that he was relaxing in his home around 6:45pm, “a bomb fall over that side first (another section of the building) and when I came around this side and sit down, another one fell on top here and when I peeped

A tramautised Wilfred Mangra

out my window I saw people running.
“The zinc burst up and so and it could have fallen on me.” He was sitting in a chair, inches from where the device landed on the roof.
The elderly man said that he has received threats from several villagers and it is quite disturbing. The matter was reported to the police who came and took photos and statements. A portion of the roof had been torn opened by the impact of the explosive.
The explosive which was allegedly thrown on the other side of the building did not detonate. All that was found was a strange device looking like a pen.
“I saw people and can call names but I won’t,” Mangra said, since the matter might have to go to court. He stated, too, that he is trying to get the ‘B’ Division Commander but was told that he was not in office.
The man is frightened to live in the area since he believes that he is under attack from a group of villagers.
Over the past days, there have been several instances whereby firecrackers, squibs and other explosives have been detonated, especially in schools. A teacher of the Berbice Educational Institute was seriously injured on her foot after a student allegedly threw the explosive in the auditorium during a Diwali cultural programme.
Last week, two students of the Rosignol Secondary School in West Berbice allegedly threw explosives into the school toilet facilities and destroyed them. Their parents were called in and they had to replace the