A Brazilian miner was shot dead during an early morning attack yesterday by an armed gang on a mining “dragger” in the Essequibo River near Omai.
Police yesterday said that unconfirmed information had identified the dead man as 46-year-old Antonio Dos Santos.
Police said in a press release that they were investigating a report that between 1am and 4am yesterday, a number of men armed with firearms boarded the “dragger” and held up workers. The workers who were