Extracted from the Trinidad Express
Thursday, October 29th 2009
WELL GUARDED: A contingent of heavily armed officers at the Chaguanas Health Centre yesterday, after they dropped off the three kidnappers who had earlier grabbed businessman Imran Mohammed-Khan. The men were pronounced dead on arrival at the facility. -Photo: DAVE PERSAD
Kidnap victim Imran Mohammed-Khan owes his freedom to a brother and to the police officers who caught the suspects and killed them all in an alleged shoot-out yesterday.
Khan, of Fourth Street, Mt Lambert, was snatched at the gates to his family's home at 8.30 a.m., blindfolded, handcuffed and taken away in the back seat of a car.
The brother who witnessed the abduction followed the abductors' car, stayed on the phone with police and orchestrated the rescue near a farm road at Carlsen Field, Chaguanas.
Khan, whose family owns a jewelry store on Queen Street, Port of Spain- Joycie's Jewelry Store-may have been bitten by the police tracker dogs let loose on the suspects, who were also mauled.
The identities of the dead men were not known last night. Police are relying on fingerprints or family to positively identify them. Police said the suspects all appeared to be teenagers.
The work of the officers was recognised last night by Assistant Commissioner of Police-South Shah Mohammed, who said "it was a job well done by the police, and I congratulated them".
"The victim was rescued unharmed although he was handcuffed, and the three persons who shot at the cops met their demise," Mohammed said.
Police said they recovered a .357 magnum with six rounds of ammunition and a home-made shotgun with three live cartridges and a spent shell.
Police were told that Khan reversed his sports utility vehicle onto the road and stepped from the vehicle to close the gates when the kidnappers pulled up in a blue Nissan Almera yesterday morning. Khan was forced into the back seat of the car.
Several persons on their way to either work, school or just conducting their usual daily business witnessed the abduction.
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