Gunmen attacked a team of Guysuco workers in the Lusignan backdam last night, beating some of the victims and reportedly abducting an armed constable and a labourer.

Three of the injured were taken to the Georgetown Hospital by ambulance.

The victims are all from the LBI Estate.

Nandkaram Gopaul, 27, who had a gash to the head, told Kaieteur News that he and about eleven other Guysuco employees were in tractors near the Lusignan Spring Bridge waiting to transport sugar cane to Enmore, when they were approached by three men.

According to Gopaul, the men carried flashlights and were armed with “long guns.”

He said that the gunmen dragged them out of the tractors and proceeded to beat them. He was struck in the head.

Kaieteur News was told that the gunmen, who also discharged a few rounds, eventually fled, taking an armed constable and a young labourer with them.

Gopaul said that they were eventually rescued by a passing land-rover and taken to the Vigilance Police Station.

He and two injured workers were then taken by a Guysuco ambulance to the Georgetown Hospital .

At press time, there was still no word about the whereabouts of the two missing men.