Po­lice con­tin­ued their search for two sus­pects con­nect­ed to the kid­nap­ping of Caribbean Air­lines pi­lot Daniel Kawall in the hills of Mar­aval yes­ter­day but were un­suc­cess­ful in lo­cat­ing them.

The men elud­ed po­lice af­ter they raid­ed a hide­out at Third Street, Mar­aval, and res­cued the 59-year-old pi­lot.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials yes­ter­day de­scribed the ter­rain be­ing searched as “un­for­giv­ing” but as­sured they would not give up the hunt.

Kawall was last seen and heard from on Sep­tem­ber 3.

His gold Toy­ota Hilux was lat­er seen parked along Holo­lo Road, Cas­cade, and was re­port­ed by res­i­dents to the po­lice hours af­ter the vic­tim was al­leged­ly seen in a scuf­fle with some oth­er men in the truck. The ve­hi­cle was lat­er found burnt, at Ec­cles Trace, Grant Road Ex­ten­sion, Rousil­lac.

Po­lice de­tained two sus­pects on Fri­day night, af­ter they were found us­ing Kawall’s bank card to with­draw cash from an ATM in Mar­aval. With these sus­pects in cus­tody, the search for him in­ten­si­fied and led to his even­tu­al res­cue.

Po­lice killed Rahiem Fe­lix, 33, at the scene af­ter they stormed the apart­ment where Kawall was be­ing held. The two oth­er sus­pects fled in­to the sur­round­ing bush­es. Mean­while, Mar­aval res­i­dents are still com­ing to terms with the dra­mat­ic res­cue.

While the com­mu­ni­ty ex­pressed re­lief at Kawall’s safe re­turn, many yes­ter­day re­mained shak­en by the events.

Sev­er­al res­i­dents who spoke to Guardian Me­dia re­quest­ed anonymi­ty, say­ing they were shocked that such an in­ci­dent oc­curred in their neigh­bour­hood.

Dur­ing a vis­it to the site, blood stains could be seen on the apart­ment door where he was kept by his ab­duc­tors.

The en­tire apart­ment was ran­sacked, with ad­ja­cent apart­ments left opened at the aban­doned com­plex.

Res­i­dents not­ed that sur­round­ing units ap­peared aban­doned and raised con­cerns that the site had been left un­se­cured by po­lice fol­low­ing the op­er­a­tion.

In Mt Holo­lo, where Kawall’s aban­doned Toy­ota Hilux was first spot­ted, res­i­dents said they had re­peat­ed­ly alert­ed po­lice but re­ceived no re­sponse.

A res­i­dent who re­port­ed the ve­hi­cle as be­ing aban­doned said claims of mis­in­for­ma­tion by po­lice, as stat­ed by Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, were in­ac­cu­rate.

“We saw the van Thurs­day morn­ing, and the re­port was made to the po­lice, but the po­lice nev­er came.

“Then the van dis­ap­peared. Who­ev­er brought the van there took it back,” the res­i­dent said.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, a strug­gle is be­lieved to have tak­en place in­side Kawall’s gold Toy­ota Hilux on Spring Bank Av­enue, St Ann’s, late Wednes­day.

Neigh­bours said they heard screams and saw at least four men in­side the ve­hi­cle, with two as­sailants al­leged­ly at­tack­ing Kawall from the back seat be­fore the van sped off.

Kawall went miss­ing on Sep­tem­ber 3. In the days fol­low­ing his dis­ap­pear­ance, his ab­duc­tors is­sued a ran­som de­mand of US$1 mil­lion. It re­mains un­clear whether any pay­ment was made. Po­lice com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­varo nei­ther de­nied nor con­firmed a ran­som was re­quest­ed.