Army officers sacked after murder

The army in Guyana has announced the dismissal of three coast guards linked to the brutal robbery and murder of a civilian at sea last week.



The three junior officers ordered a young man out of the boat in which he was traveling and into their coast guard vessel.



They later confessed that they then robbed the man of the equivalent of 70 thousand US dollars which he was carrying, strangled him and dumped his body in a river.



Chief government spokesman Roger Luncheon says the administration feels the event is a sign that something went radically wrong but was not detected in time.



He wants a board of inquiry to investigate what may have led to the soldiers’ behaviour.