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Several shot by police during unrest
Kaieteur News- Pandemonium broke out Tuesday evening around the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) as relatives of 11-year-old Adriana Younge, who was found dead in a pool at the Double Day International Hotel at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, were being briefed about the recently concluded post-mortem.
Hundreds of persons surrounded the hospital in support of the child’s grieving family but as they gathered, so too did members of the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Riot Squad. The ranks opened fire shooting at the supporters who demanded justice for the dead girl.
Blood stains on the floor of Mark Semple’s home at Hopetown Village, WCB
Gun shots rang out frequently causing the crowd to disperse temporarily and even saw representatives of the local media running for cover. In retaliation, those who lined the streets waiting to hear of the post-mortem report, hurled glass bottles, bricks and other obstacles at the police.
Just before 16:00h, a young woman was being assisted by a man at the southern entrance of the GPHC. She was bleeding from her calves. The man pleaded with police and security at the gate to open and let her in for treatment.
The security told the man he did not have permission to open the padlocked gate. The woman was forced to scale the hospital’s fence to seek treatment after the security told her to walk around the block to the Emergency Unit of the hospital.
“Y’all are crazy. We can’t walk till there…She is bleeding,” the angry man declared. In a bid to get the woman treated she was assisted in scaling the fence where then limped into the outpatient department.
A woman who was shot in her foot by members of the Riot Squad being assisted by onlookers at the GPHC.
She told reporters that there were no doctors in that department and the nurses seemed unwilling to assist. “I wrap it me self, I go and take it out the hospital from the outpatient,” the injured woman said.
The woman made it clear that she was not a protestor and was only leaving a nearby yard when she was struck by a pellet. “I was now walking coming outside…right at the side of here and I get one shot… all my foot gouge out. Them say dem aint got no doctor…no nurse, nobody aint want look you after over there. I bandage my foot…” she told reporters.
About an hour after, a woman, whose identity is also unknown, was shot while in the hospital’s compound. She was observed limping with blood oozing from her foot. She was readily assisted by persons in the compound who strongly condemned the police’s action. “People standing here peaceful, and y’all shooting us like we mean nothing. You all are heartless,” one man shouted while a woman yelled, “You all don’t have relatives? No mother, no father? No children…have a heart. You are shooting wildly at innocent people right outside the maternity ward where there are newborns.”
Another person who said he was not involved in the protest outside the hospital, but was standing in a corner observing the occurrences, was shot six times about his body.
A woman who was shot by police limps toward the southern gate of the GPHC.
He was shot in his feet, back, thigh and buttocks.
“I was at Middle Street bracing the fence…I was on the street after the canter pull up TSU jump out the van pointing at the gate, pushing off we who was at the gate. After we brace the fence, they start shooting. Now, when I move off…they start shooting. I got six of them [ I was shot six times],” the man told reporters who were gathered at GPHC.
He continued: I get six (shots) for doing nothing…How can I get six for standing for the child? I aint do nothing, I aint light a fire…”
The angry man, notwithstanding his injuries, vowed to stand with Adriana Younge’s family during their time of grief.
Meanwhile, a Hopetown Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB) was on Monday night reportedly shot in the face by police at his Semple Street home at approximately 21:30h.
The injured man was identified as Mark Semple who is reportedly hospitalized at the Fort Wellington Hospital.
Unconfirmed reports are that another man, who was at the said location was also shot.
Region Five Parliamentarian, Vinceroy Jordan posted on his Facebook page, “Region 5, Hopetown resident shot in the face by Police at his home and is currently hospitalized” while calling on the Guyana Police Force to “act responsibly.
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The videos showed AGITATORS, not Protestors.
Many were inciting the crowd.
However, the Keystone Kops-Guyana’s Police- and Comish, acted too
late securing the perimeter of the GPHC after the crowd acting out and
become disruptive.
Our Police were too late at the Hospital.