RALPH BAN­WARIE

An eight-year-old boy who sur­vived be­ing shot in the chest on Fri­day night, re­mains in sta­ble con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.

Guardian Me­dia re­ceived con­fir­ma­tion from the po­lice on Sun­day that the young­ster is still ward­ed at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal and is in sta­ble con­di­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, the vic­tim—8-year-old Kalum St Bernard—was in the com­pa­ny of his moth­er, 29-year-old Nu­mi St Bernard of Emon Lane, Va­len­cia and oth­er sib­lings around 10:17 pm on Fri­day night, when they be­gan hear­ing sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions.

The moth­er fur­ther re­port­ed that her son com­plained about a burn­ing sen­sa­tion on his up­per left chest. Up­on check­ing, she ob­served what ap­peared to be a gun­shot wound on her son. Blood was said to be ooz­ing from the wound in his chest.

The child was tak­en to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal in a pri­vate ve­hi­cle where he un­der­went emer­gency surgery.

The scene was lat­er vis­it­ed by the po­lice but noth­ing of ev­i­den­tial val­ue was ob­tained.

The po­lice al­so made checks and in­ter­viewed sev­er­al per­sons along the road, but no use­ful in­for­ma­tion was re­ceived.