From Caribbean News Service

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul 21 2017 – The police have launched an investigation into the murder of three Guyanese miners in Venezuela.

The police report that the miners were found shot to death in a mining camp in the town of Imataka, on the Guyana Venezuela border.

The miners have been identified as Samuel Moses,19, Cologne Solomon,23 and Vernon Eudoxie, 56.

According to the Guyana Police Commander for the area, Snr. Superintendent Ravindradat Budram, the bodies were brought across to Guyana and are at Port Kaituma from where they will be flown to the city for post mortem examination.

A fourth man who is believed to have survived the attack, was found with injuries.

He was scheduled to be flown to Georgetown for medical care on Thursday.

The police believe the men were working along with the Brazilian owner of the mining camp when the camp came under attack on Wednesday by a suspected Venezuelan gang.

It is believed that the same gang has been raiding other mining camps on both the Guyana and Venezuelan sides.

The local police say as they probe the tragedy, they will contact their counterparts in Venezuela.

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