Police at about 12:45hrs on Wednesday responded to a report that a man who appeared to be mentally unstable was in the Soesdyke Primary School armed with a cutlass and terrorising students and teachers.According to a police press release, upon their arrival at the scene, the armed man attacked the police with the cutlass and inflicted a wound to the left hand of Inspector Mohan Khan.
The police were forced to resort to the use of force and the man, identified as Christopher Mc Cullen of Timehri Docks, was shot and injured to his left shoulder.
Inspector Khan and Mc Cullen were taken for medical treatment at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, East Bank Demerara.

(Michel Outridge)