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Sev­en peo­ple, in­clud­ing the Venezue­lan na­tion­al who is al­leged to have con­fessed to be­ing the per­son who laid a bomb out­side a gas sta­tion that killed six-year old So­raya Bourne and in­jury to four oth­ers late last month, has been de­nied bail and re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody when they ap­peared in a mag­is­trate court here on Wednes­day.

Venezue­lan Daniel Alexan­der Ramirez Poede­mo, 33, who is al­leged to be the bomber, along with 44-year old Alexan­der Bet­tan­court, 33-year old and John­ny Boodram and 33-year-old Krys­tal La Cruz, ap­peared be­fore Chief Mag­is­trate Faith Mc Gusty on a charge of ter­ror­ism, who re­mand­ed them in­to cus­tody. The four were not re­quired to plead to the in­dictable

The pros­e­cu­tion al­leges that Poede­mo on Oc­to­ber 26, with in­tent to threat­en the se­cu­ri­ty and sov­er­eign­ty of Guyana or to strike ter­ror among its peo­ple, used an ex­plo­sive de­vice at the Mo­bil Fu­el Sta­tion at Re­gent and King Streets, George­town, re­sult­ing in the death of the six-year-old child.