Ak­ile Si­mon

?Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment lo­cal gov­ern­ment coun­cil­lor, St Servius Pam­phille, who was shot dur­ing a rob­bery on Wednes­day, has lost his right kid­ney. In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Pam­phille's kid­ney was re­moved by doc­tors af­ter it was se­vere­ly dam­aged by a bul­let which en­tered his back and ex­it­ed through his chest. Pam­phille, pop­u­lar­ly known as Clint, is a coun­cil­lor with the Ari­ma Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion. He is em­ployed with Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) as a me­ter read­er. He was am­bushed by a group of men while check­ing a me­ter out­side a house at Mount Hope Place, Mount Hope Road, on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Pam­phille was ac­cost­ed by the men who an­nounced a hold-up. As he at­tempt­ed to run away, he was shot in the back. The rob­bers ap­proached the bleed­ing man, as he lay on the ground, and robbed him of a gold chain and oth­er per­son­al items. Pam­phille was tak­en to Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mt Hope, where he un­der­went emer­gency surgery. He re­mained ward­ed in sta­ble con­di­tion. Cpl Joe­field of the San Juan CID is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.