Three Port Kaituma, North West District miners met a brutal end following a robbery at a mining camp at the Venezuela border on Thursday morning.

Commander of “F” Division of the Guyana Police Force, Rabindranath Budhram confirmed that the men, Vernon Eudoxie, 63, Cologne Solomon, 23, who was an ex-policeman, and Samuel Moses, 19, were killed during the incident. Another man was injured and he is currently being treated at the hospital in Port Kaituma.

The incident occurred around 3:00hrs on Thursday at an area known as “Imatake Backdam” across the Venezuela border.

Reports are that the men were robbed on several occasions by Spanish-speaking men prior to Thursday’s incident. Their bodies were brought out of the area on Thursday night and taken to the Port Kaituma Hospital mortuary.