The ex­tent of in­juries sus­tained by in­di­vid­u­als as a re­sult of the on­go­ing vi­o­lent post-gen­er­al elec­tion protest ac­tion tak­ing place across Guyana are now com­ing to the fore.

Po­lice Sergeant Punit Ibaran, who was at­tacked by armed pro­test­ers on Fri­day night, sus­tained two bro­ken arms, a chop wound to the back of his head and lac­er­a­tions about his body.

Ibaran was among three po­lice of­fi­cers who were at­tacked by an an­gry mob in the vil­lage of Cot­ton Tree.

Sew­dat Han­sraj, 18, who is al­leged to have at­tacked Ibaran, was shot dead by po­lice dur­ing the in­ci­dent.

The oth­er two po­lice of­fi­cers in­jured dur­ing the in­ci­dent were con­sta­bles Ron Grant and Jaf­ta Fras­er. Grant and Fras­er were yes­ter­day dis­charged from the New Am­s­ter­dam Hos­pi­tal. Ibaran re­mains hos­pi­talised.

Three oth­er po­lice of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing an as­sis­tant su­per­in­ten­dent, were al­so in­jured in an­oth­er protest ac­tion in the vil­lage of Tain.

Woman po­lice con­sta­ble Tussie Waller­son suf­fered a frac­tured foot while her col­league Shomei­ka Wick­ham re­ceived oth­er in­juries af­ter be­ing stoned by pro­tes­tors.

The Guyana Po­lice Force yes­ter­day said the of­fi­cers will be pro­vid­ed with the nec­es­sary coun­sel­ing re­quired.

Six school chil­dren who were al­so in­jured af­ter the bus car­ry­ing them to class­es was stoned by pro­tes­tors in the Bush Lot Vil­lage, Ma­haica-Berbice area have all been dis­charged from hos­pi­tal.

The in­jured chil­dren have been iden­ti­fied as Christo­pher Srik­ishun, Oris­sa No­ble, Roen Bobb, Be­y­once Kno­ble and Jahia Phil­lan­der from the Fort Welling­ton Sec­ondary School and Mari­ah Jacque from the Bush Lot Sec­ondary School.

Bobb suf­fered a gash on his head af­ter be­ing struck.

The oth­er chil­dren sus­tained cuts and lac­er­a­tions about their bod­ies.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of the Pres­i­den­cy Si­mona Broomes, on be­half of Pres­i­dent David Granger, vis­it­ed the home of the six in­jured chil­dren yes­ter­day.