A 16-year-old sus­pect is now in po­lice cus­tody, fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in Ma­yaro which left two rel­a­tives nurs­ing chop wounds. One of the men’s arms was al­most sev­ered in the at­tack, po­lice said.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 9.30 pm on Sat­ur­day.

The vic­tims, ages 24 and 25, both of La Brea Vil­lage, Guayagua­yare, Ma­yaro, were in­volved in an al­ter­ca­tion with the sus­pect and his broth­ers at La Brea Vil­lage.

The vic­tims re­port­ed­ly at­tacked the sus­pect’s broth­ers, a po­lice re­port stat­ed. The sus­pect then chopped the younger vic­tim, al­most sev­er­ing his left hand, while the oth­er vic­tim was chopped on his left shoul­der. The in­jured men were tak­en to the Ma­yaro Health Fa­cil­i­ty, where they were at­tend­ed to and then trans­ferred to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal.

The po­lice took the teenage sus­pect to be med­ical­ly ex­am­ined and then to the Fyz­abad Po­lice Sta­tion pend­ing en­quires.

PC Joseph is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.