Region seven : A team of police has been dispatched to a mining camp at Akaiwanna, Cuyuni, Region #7 to investigate the murder of dredge owner Antonio Da Silva, 36, a Brazilian National whose body which bore several suspected gunshot injuries, has since been removed to the Memorial Gardens Crematorium, awaiting a post-mortem.
Investigations have so far revealed that between 5:45 p.m. yesterday and 2 a.m. today, a gang of about six to eight men, armed with rifles and handguns and speaking a foreign language, attacked the mining camp, bound the deceased along with several of his workers and ransacked the camp; after which the bandits escorted the deceased to his worksite where they removed an undisclosed amount of raw gold.
It is alleged that the bandits further took the deceased about 500 meters from the site and shot him several times and fled the area.
