Two al­leged ban­dits are now ward­ed at the hos­pi­tal af­ter they were shot by po­lice of­fi­cers who caught them at­tempt­ing to break in­to a house in Barataria.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, of­fi­cers were on mo­bile pa­trol in Barataria around 2.56 am yes­ter­day, when they ob­served sev­er­al men stand­ing near a win­dow in­side a prop­er­ty.

Po­lice said the of­fi­cers got out their ve­hi­cle and chal­lenged the sus­pects, who at­tempt­ed to jump over a wall to leave the prop­er­ty.

Whilst do­ing so, it is al­leged one of the men point­ed an ob­ject re­sem­bling a firearm in the di­rec­tion of the of­fi­cers.

In a me­dia re­lease, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice said the of­fi­cers, in ac­cor­dance with the Use of Force Pol­i­cy, shot at the sus­pect.

It said the of­fi­cers then chased af­ter the men and an­oth­er sus­pect turned and point­ed an ob­ject re­sem­bling a firearm in the di­rec­tion of the of­fi­cers. Again, it said the of­fi­cers shot back at the gun­man, who fell to the ground wound­ed. A sec­ond sus­pect was al­so held a short dis­tance away and was al­so found to be wound­ed.

Of­fi­cers from the Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol re­spond­ed to a call for as­sis­tance and the in­jured sus­pects were tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, for treat­ment.

A third sus­pect was found hid­ing un­der a near­by house.

Po­lice said one firearm, a screw­driv­er and sev­er­al house-break­ing im­ple­ments were re­cov­ered from the scene.

The sus­pects are a 28-year-old and 20-year-old, both of San Juan, and a 38-year-old from Laven­tille.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.