An Army and Police
patrol yesterday afternoon evaded gunfire from a house
in south Buxton, East Coast Demerara and later hauled in
ammunition and military type clothing and
materials.
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Officials said the soldiers
and Police were shot at as they continued joint patrols
to clear the troubled village which has become a safe
haven for heavily armed criminals.
The patrol came under gunfire
around 16:15 h and after it simmered about 10 minutes
later, they moved in on the house and discovered the
materials which included a mask, ammunition for high
powered weapons, and Brazilian, Guyana, and NATO
military camouflage outfits and other items.
The materials found were: one
mask, 10 M-70 magazines, one AK-47 drum magazine, a
Police bullet proof vest, a G3 cleaning kit, three
military type water bottles, one M-59 magazine, three
Brazilian camouflage hammocks, two Guyana Defence Force
(GDF) camouflage pants, one GDF camouflage shirt, two
NATO camouflage shirts, one M-70 top cover, plastic, one
pair black military DMS boots, marijuana seeds and
assorted civilian clothes.
The find was the first for
the joint security services since they launched
'Operation Centipede' early November last year following
the massive 'Operation Stilletto' in late October 2005,
which saw some 400 ranks descend on Buxton but coming up
empty handed, finding neither the hardened criminals,
guns, or ammunition they were looking for.
The find also came two weeks
after heavily-armed men surfaced in the 'Gulf' in south
Buxton during the funeral procession of controversial TV
'talk show' host Ronald Waddell, who was executed at his
Georgetown home.
(Photos,
courtesy GDF)
No rank was wounded in the
gunfire yesterday and Police are continuing
investigations into the find.
After Waddell’s
execution, there were renewed calls from all sections of
society for the Police to intensify the fight against
criminals in the country and the governing People's
Progressive Party (PPP) had called on the Police to
re-enter Buxton following reports that heavily armed men
escorted the body of Waddell into south Buxton.
Wednesday,
February 15, 2006
