ALL five persons warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital after sustaining injuries when a fragmentation grenade exploded in the Stabroek Market Square last Wednesday, have been discharged and are recovering favourably.

They are Victorine Campbell, 76, of 19 New Hope, East Bank Demerara;  Esther Sutherland, 55, of 44 Palm Street, Werk-en-Rust; Egbert Austin 40, of 74 Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara; Trefa Hinds, 31, of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara; and Clayronn Alleyne, 30, a minibus conductor of 318 Kuru-Kuru, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.    
Fourteen other persons who were injured were treated at the hospital and sent home.
The grenade exploded in the mid-morning rush-hour when several down-town shoppers, mainly from the East Bank Demerara, were seeking transportation to return home, and others happened to be conducting business in the area.
Police are working on the theory that a man, referred to as a ‘junkie’, was fiddling with the grenade when it exploded.