Gunmen in Guyana have gone on rampage, killing 11 people, including five children, police say. The gunmem stormed into a village east of the capital, Georgetown, and fired into several houses.
It was reported to be the worst mass killing in the South American country for more than 30 years, and sparked angry protests by neighbours. Officials suspect a criminal gang acting on the orders of the country’s most wanted man, Rondell Rawlins.
Police say Rondell Rawlins has accussed government forces of kidnapping his pregnant girlfriend, and has threatened to launch attacks until she is returned.
Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo deplored the attack, in the village of Lusignan, east of the capital Georgetown, as a ” cowardly act” carried out by ” sick, demented criminals”.
” We have to hunt them down,” he said. Divisional Police Commander Leoroy Brummel said unidentified gunmen kicked down the doors of five wooden houses in Lusignan, shooting at inhabitants within.
The dead include a man, his wife and their granddaughter in one house, and a motherr and her two children in another, news agency AFP reported.
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