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By Nigel Williams

Gunmen yesterday afternoon killed two Brazilian miners and injured a third during a robbery at a guest house on Regent Street before escaping on a motor bike despite police foot patrols in the city.

Dead are Silverino Pequeno Alves Junio, 45, a dredge owner who had been living in Guyana for the past five years and Francisco Lima, 46. Junio was shot in his head while Lima was hit in his abdomen. A third man, Jose Alenor Ovido D’Oliveira was gun butted and was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital and sent away.