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A po­lice con­sta­ble man­aged to es­cape se­ri­ous in­jury on Wednes­day night fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in St Ann’s, af­ter a bul­let from a ban­dit pierced his walkie-talkie.

The of­fi­cer was treat­ed at hos­pi­tal and lat­er dis­charged in a sta­ble con­di­tion, al­though he was left nurs­ing bruis­es.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the Joint Op­er­a­tions Task Force (JOTF) were on mo­bile pa­trol at 11.05 pm when they re­ceived a re­port that armed men were seen at Fondes Aman­des, St Ann’s.