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SENIOR prison officer Garth Guada, detained at the army’s Teteron Barracks in Chaguaramas under the state of emergency preventative detention order, has been hospitalised.

The Port of Spain General Hospital's Accident and Emergency Department went into lockdown mode with swarms of police and army officers present.

Newsday understands Guada and another man were admitted to the hospital at about 10.30 am on October 2, after they complained of feeling “unwell.” Newsday understands the senior prison officer was said to be “severely dehydrated.”