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Dec 18, 2012 News
Pandemonium broke out at the Home Affairs Ministry yesterday after a female Special Constabulary rank was accidentally shot while on duty in the compound.
Corporal Lorna Andrews, 53, was wounded in the left thigh around 12:25 hrs when she claimed that she accidentally dropped a firearm she had collected from another rank.
Corporal Andrews was sitting in the waiting area when another female rank handed her a .38 revolver. A source said that the corporal was about to stand when the weapon fell and a round was discharged and the rank was shot in the thigh. The bullet exited the limb.
However, experts say that unless a revolver is cocked, it would not go off, even if it is dropped from a skyscraper.
The wounded rank was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) by Home Affairs Ministry personnel. She has been admitted to the hospital’s Female Surgical Ward.
Sources said that it is fortunate that no one else was injured, since about six Home Affairs Ministry staff members were in close proximity when the mishap occurred.
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