An ex-coastguard officer and his friend were brutally chopped during a bar brawl in Siparia on Saturday.
The 43-year-old ex-coastguard and his 42-year-old friend were liming at Williams Bar, De Gannes Village, around 2.30 am when a group of patrons began arguing, and it escalated into a fight.
As the friends were about to leave, a man known to the ex-coastguard began chopping him with a cutlass on his head, lower abdomen, upper back and hand.
His friend tried to help him and was chopped on his head and hand. One of his fingers were severed. They were warded at the San Fernando General Hospital in stable condition up to yesterday.
Investigations are continuing.
—Sascha Wilson