Guard shoots bandit

TWO bandits fled, while a third was shot three times, after a security guard foiled a robbery attempt at the SM Jaleel Chaguanas compound, Thurs-day night.

Chaguanas detectives were up to late yesterday searching for the two men, while the injured suspect, a 21-year-old man, is in a serious condition under police guard at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital. At around 7.30 pm, Estate Constable Randolph Donnis, 30, of Security Escort Services Ltd, was on duty at the soft drink manufacturing company at Berger Street Extension when he spotted three men attempting to enter the compound through a hole in the wire fence. The guard raised an alarm and one of the men fired at him. Donnis returned fire with his service revolver and pursued the fleeing suspects on foot. Upon reaching Medford Service Station at Montrose, the bandits again fired at the security officer, who in turn fired two shots at the men. One of the bandits slumped to the ground. He was left bleeding from the wounds to his back, while his accomplices escaped. Officers from the Chaguanas CID visited the scene and Insp Raphael is continuing investigations.