The Guyana De­fence Force (GDF) on Tues­day said the six sol­diers who were shot af­ter be­ing am­bushed by masked gun­men in the Cuyu­ni Riv­er on Mon­day, were med­ical­ly evac­u­at­ed to the cap­i­tal for ur­gent fol­low-up med­ical care.

“The health and well-be­ing of our per­son­nel re­main the high­est pri­or­i­ty, and all nec­es­sary mea­sures are be­ing tak­en to en­sure they re­ceive the best pos­si­ble treat­ment. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, the fam­i­lies of the af­fect­ed ranks have been con­tact­ed and are be­ing kept in­formed of their con­di­tion,” the GDF said in a re­lease.

Ear­li­er on Tues­day, Com­man­der in Chief of the Armed Forces, Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali in a state­ment said an army Bell 412 he­li­copter was en route to evac­u­ate the in­jured sol­diers.

Those in­jured are: Sec­ond Lieu­tenant Ansel Mur­ray who was shot to the right side of the head; Sergeant Kevon Davis who was shot in the right foot and an­kle; Cor­po­ral An­dre Fras­er who re­ceived gun­shot wounds to the left side of the ab­domen and shoul­der; Cor­po­ral Kevin Hen­ry who was shot in the left arm and shoul­der; Lance Cor­po­ral Travis Yor­rick who was shot in the right thigh; and Pri­vate Ezron Samuel was shot in the right side of the ab­domen.

“We are deeply con­cerned about the well-be­ing of our sol­diers who were in­jured in yes­ter­day’s at­tack on a mil­i­tary pa­trol.”

The Guyana De­fence Force em­pha­sised that it re­mains stead­fast in its com­mit­ment to the wel­fare of all ranks and en­sur­ing the na­tion’s se­cu­ri­ty.

Af­ter the at­tack, the GDF mo­bilised re­in­force­ment along the Cuyu­ni Riv­er.

GDF in a state­ment said the re­sup­ply ves­sel en route from Eter­ing­bang to Maka­pa came un­der fire from the group of armed men.

The pa­trol im­me­di­ate­ly re­spond­ed to the at­tack and en­gaged the as­sailants with re­turn fire.

Po­lice Head­quar­ters re­port­ed that the armed in­di­vid­u­als are sus­pect­ed to be linked to the Sindi­catos, a Venezue­lan gang.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana, Feb 18, CMC –