Brazilian miner stabbed to death during argument over gold

A Brazilian miner was stabbed to death on Thursday evening during an argument over gold at Central Baramita, North West District (NWD), Region One (Barima-Waini). The identity of the victim has been given only as “Negung”.
The Police have said that the victim and the suspect were involved in a gold-mining operation at the Venezuela/ Guyana border, and whilst working there, had had a misunderstanding over a quantity of raw gold. This had resulted in frequent threats being made to each other, but the matter was not reported to the Police.
On Thursday, at about 20:30h, the victim and the suspect were consuming alcohol in the vicinity of the Johnny Phillips’ Hotel at Central Baramita, NWD when an argument broke out between them. During that argument, the 35-year-old suspect, who is also a Brazilian, whipped out a knife from his pants waist and dealt the victim several stabs to his chest and ribs’ area, before dropping the murder weapon and making good his escape.
The victim was taken to the Baramita Health Centre, where he was pronounced dead on arrival by a medex. His body has been taken to the Port Kaituma Mortuary to await a post mortem.
A report was made to the Baramita Police Station, and the alleged murder weapon was recovered at the scene while a manhunt has been launched to apprehend the suspect.