The at­tacks against prison of­fi­cers con­tin­ued tonight, as gun­men opened fire on the home of a fe­male prison of­fi­cer in El Do­ra­do, Tu­na­puna, in­jur­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer who runs a par­lour on the prop­er­ty.

Re­ports in­di­cate the woman was at home with her fa­ther and oth­er rel­a­tives around 7.30 pm when a car with un­known oc­cu­pants pulled up out­side and they be­gan shoot­ing.

The small shop lo­cat­ed to the front of the prop­er­ty at Clemen­ty Street, El Do­ra­do, is rent­ed by a po­lice of­fi­cer, who drew his li­censed pis­tol and re­turned fire, forc­ing the men to flee. Re­ports in­di­cat­ed that the po­lice of­fi­cer was in­jured in the hand and was sub­se­quent­ly treat­ed at hos­pi­tal.

In an emo­tion­al voice note mo­ments af­ter the shoot­ing, some­one pur­port­ing to be the fe­male prison of­fi­cer cried as she said, "This is re­al."

Im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter the shoot­ing, as news of the in­ci­dent spread, oth­er prison of­fi­cers quick­ly rushed to the scene to con­sole their col­league.

Po­lice al­so ar­rived and cor­doned off the area, as they searched for the gun­men, who were al­so re­port­ed to have been in­jured by the of­fi­cer dur­ing the ex­change of gun­fire.

This in­ci­dent fol­lows Mon­day's killing of prison of­fi­cer Nigel Jones in Siparia and last Fri­day's mur­der of Trevor Ser­rette in Va­len­cia.