West Coast Demerara : The police this afternoon confirmed that acting on information received that an armed robbery had been planned, the police staked out an area at Kastev Housing Scheme, Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, this morning.
At around 10:00am two motor vehicles, bearing number plates HB 7644 and PPP 9366, drove up and four men, two of whom were armed with handguns, exited the vehicles.
The police ranks challenged the men who opened fired on them. The police returned fire fatally wounding Kirk Bacchus, of Paradise, East Coast Demerara. A 9mm. pistol with two live rounds was recovered.
Two of the other men have been arrested and the motor vehicles seized by the police.
The fourth man, who is armed with a firearm, escaped and is being pursued by the police.
