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Oct 23, 2010 News
– rank to be court martialed
The Guyana Defence Force has recovered the AK-47 assault rifle which had disappeared during a recent training exercise at Makouria.
A brief statement from the army’s Public Relations Department said that a search party, “using metal detectors and similar devices,” found the weapon yesterday in the training area that had not been previously searched.
The release indicated that the rank who had lost the weapon will be court martialed.
The statement did not identify the type of firearm or the area in which it was found.
However, Kaieteur News had reported in its Wednesday edition that a team of investigators from the GDF had travelled to the Makouria area to probe the loss of another AK-47 assault rifle. The weapon was reported missing, on Tuesday morning, following the completion of the Guyana Defence Force ‘Iron Man Course’ for Infantry soldiers.
According to reports, the weapon was in the possession of one of the infantry soldiers immediately prior to its loss.
An army source told this newspaper that the infantry contingent, numbering 48 ranks, arrived at the GDF training base at Makouria on Saturday for the exercise. They left camp on Monday night and returned to base early yesterday morning.
The source said that the rank who was in possession of the weapon did not return to the camp with the main contingent but was subsequently located.
He reported to his superiors that he had lost his weapon during the exercise.
“He reported that the weapon fell in the bush,” the source told this newspaper.
The entire contingent turned back and retraced their steps but the weapon was not found.
This led to investigators from Army Headquarters Camp Ayanganna travelling to the area to find out what really transpired. The loss of the weapon came just weeks after the army recovered two of its assault rifles that were stolen from Camp Ayanganna in February 2004.
The two weapons along with an UZI submachine gun were found in the possession of a Canje, Berbice man who has since been remanded to prison.
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