Police arrest man who allegedly wounded ADK security guard
| DATE: 2008-04-10 | PRINT |
At a news conference held at the Coast Guard building yesterday Major Ibrahim Afzal said that some MNDF personnel had seen three masked men leaving the ADK Hospital around 3:05am and had given chase. The troops had managed to capture one of the fleeing men but the other two had managed to elude capture. The man they had captured was 26-year-old Ismail Shaheem of Karankaavillaa in Thaa atoll Thimarafushi. Afzal said that since they had managed to capture one of the three, he had full confidence that they will be able to find the other two also.
“One of our patrols was going past ADK Hospital around 3:05am or 3:10am when they saw the three men leaving the Hospital,” Afzal said. “Some of them were wearing hoods covering their faces with only their eyes visible. When they saw us they ran away and the patrol gave chase. Our vehicle followed one of them and it was the other two that managed to get away.”
Shaheem is the first person to be arrested since the MNDF began patrolling the streets in an effort to cut down on the gang-related violence that has been plaguing the city for months now.
Afzal said that when the MNDF patrol vehicle had given chase Shaheem had thrown a 13-inch knife he had been carrying at them. Shaheem had then run into a house called H. Dhanbumaage Aage in an effort to escape. He said that Shaheem had been wearing a mask when he had left ADK Hospital but had taken it off during the chase.
Pictures of the knife carried by Shaheem and mug-shots of him with and without a mask on were revealed to the media during the news conference.
Afzal said that Shaheem and his two other accomplices had entered the ADK Hospital and attacked the Indian security guard there and vandalized a parked Hospital van in the parking lot before leaving. The security guard had suffered a six-inch cut over his right eye and a 3-inch wound on his forearm. ADK Hospital said that windows of the van had been shattered during the incident.
Afzal said that they had handed over Shaheem to the Police for investigation around 7:45am Wednesday.
“The knife that he had thrown at us was presumably used to attack the Indian guard on duty,” Afzal said. “However we can’t say for sure who it was that had attacked the guard. The Maldives Police Service will find that out during their investigation.”
In a prior incident on Thursday last week, a group of people had entered the ADK Hospital, the only privately owned hospital in Maldives, and littered the grounds with leaflets and broken the windshield of a Hospital van. The group had apparently been complaining about the high prices being charged by the Hospital for its services.
Afzal also said yesterday that 48 hours had passed since the MNDF had started patrolling the streets and that other than the single incident no major gang-related violence had occurred in the streets. He said that however they had handed over two people for speeding and driving without a license.
The Maldives Police Service said that they had arrested two 19-year-olds for allegedly trying to create a disturbance near the Voice of Maldives building. A Police Media Official said that upon searching the two they had found that one of them, Moosa Jinaah of Dheenuge in Thaa atoll Thimarafushi, had kept a hidden axe tied around his leg under his trousers. The other boy who had been arrested in the incident was Mohamed Rashaa of H. Thuzaa.
A group of people had also tried to shatter the window of a shop called Maziya Trade in Maafannu district the same night, eyewitnesses to the incident said. The group had failed to shatter the windows because the glass used in the windows of the shop was tempered glass. Police also later confirmed the incident.
| DATE: 2008-04-10 | PRINT |
Mugshots of Ismail Shaheem taken by Police show him wearing the hood and without it.
At a news conference held at the Coast Guard building yesterday Major Ibrahim Afzal said that some MNDF personnel had seen three masked men leaving the ADK Hospital around 3:05am and had given chase. The troops had managed to capture one of the fleeing men but the other two had managed to elude capture. The man they had captured was 26-year-old Ismail Shaheem of Karankaavillaa in Thaa atoll Thimarafushi. Afzal said that since they had managed to capture one of the three, he had full confidence that they will be able to find the other two also.
“One of our patrols was going past ADK Hospital around 3:05am or 3:10am when they saw the three men leaving the Hospital,” Afzal said. “Some of them were wearing hoods covering their faces with only their eyes visible. When they saw us they ran away and the patrol gave chase. Our vehicle followed one of them and it was the other two that managed to get away.”
Shaheem is the first person to be arrested since the MNDF began patrolling the streets in an effort to cut down on the gang-related violence that has been plaguing the city for months now.
Afzal said that when the MNDF patrol vehicle had given chase Shaheem had thrown a 13-inch knife he had been carrying at them. Shaheem had then run into a house called H. Dhanbumaage Aage in an effort to escape. He said that Shaheem had been wearing a mask when he had left ADK Hospital but had taken it off during the chase.
Pictures of the knife carried by Shaheem and mug-shots of him with and without a mask on were revealed to the media during the news conference.
Afzal said that Shaheem and his two other accomplices had entered the ADK Hospital and attacked the Indian security guard there and vandalized a parked Hospital van in the parking lot before leaving. The security guard had suffered a six-inch cut over his right eye and a 3-inch wound on his forearm. ADK Hospital said that windows of the van had been shattered during the incident.
Afzal said that they had handed over Shaheem to the Police for investigation around 7:45am Wednesday.
“The knife that he had thrown at us was presumably used to attack the Indian guard on duty,” Afzal said. “However we can’t say for sure who it was that had attacked the guard. The Maldives Police Service will find that out during their investigation.”
In a prior incident on Thursday last week, a group of people had entered the ADK Hospital, the only privately owned hospital in Maldives, and littered the grounds with leaflets and broken the windshield of a Hospital van. The group had apparently been complaining about the high prices being charged by the Hospital for its services.
Afzal also said yesterday that 48 hours had passed since the MNDF had started patrolling the streets and that other than the single incident no major gang-related violence had occurred in the streets. He said that however they had handed over two people for speeding and driving without a license.
The Maldives Police Service said that they had arrested two 19-year-olds for allegedly trying to create a disturbance near the Voice of Maldives building. A Police Media Official said that upon searching the two they had found that one of them, Moosa Jinaah of Dheenuge in Thaa atoll Thimarafushi, had kept a hidden axe tied around his leg under his trousers. The other boy who had been arrested in the incident was Mohamed Rashaa of H. Thuzaa.
A group of people had also tried to shatter the window of a shop called Maziya Trade in Maafannu district the same night, eyewitnesses to the incident said. The group had failed to shatter the windows because the glass used in the windows of the shop was tempered glass. Police also later confirmed the incident.
