Armed Robbers Attack Church, Inflicting Wounds on Several Members

Following an attack on the Police chief Beatrice Munah Sieh’s in Bardnersville home, robbers armed with machetes and other dangerous implements last Friday attacked the New Georgia compound of the Philadelphia Free Pentecostal Church, inflicting severe wounds on two persons, taking away with them several valuables.

A day after that attack, a 59- years old sheriff of the Gardnersville Magisterial Court, Mr. Benedict N. Wiah, was attacked by men armed with machetes and pipes in the vicinity of the chicken poultry, New Georgia.

The attacks intensify as the Police launch its operation code name, “Locate & Dismantle Criminal Hide outs.

Mr. Moses Gleen, a deactivated Lieutenant of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) who is also one of the Security guards on duty at the Church’s premises, told the New Democrat that the group of men approached them in the middle of the night their handsets and everything they had on them.

He said at first they took the men to be Police officers on night patrol, but later realize they were far from being Police officers because of the demands they were making.

Mr. Gleen, “At this time, I had managed to escape with my military experienced but two men pursue me. Because I ran faster, I hid myself behind a palm tree, so they did not find me.”

He said that while in his hide out behind the palm tree, he could hear the shouts of his colleague calling for help. ‘He was being stabbed’, Gleen noted. He said, the shouts of my colleague constrain Patrick Sarwieh, a resident of the Church compound to come out and offer help but he was callously attacked.

Sarwieh is currently receiving treatment at the John F. Kennedy Medical Hospital where the Church authorities say his condition is critical.

In the case of 59 years old sheriff of the Gardnersville Magisterial Court, he was hit on Saturday attacked by men armed with machetes and pipes in the vicinity of the chicken poultry, New Georgia.

Mr. Wiah, who was left with a disjointed arm, told this paper that three men forced his door open and attacked him by 2AM while he was at sleep.

He said he believe the men were more than three because he heard other voices outside threatening his neighbors not to come out.