According to reports, crew members of the MV Casino Royale<\/I><\/B>, moored at Lucayan Harbour, were walking from the Pinder’s Point area back to the ship around 11pm when two masked men armed with a shotgun appeared from the bushes.<\/P><\/p>\n
The gunmen demanded cash, but the sailors refused to give in to their demands. Several shots were fired into the air. Then there. was a struggle between the masked men and the sailors.<\/P><\/p>\n
During the struggle, a 62-year-old sailor was seriously injured after being thrown to the ground and beaten about the body. The man was taken to Rand Memorial Hospital for medical attention.<\/P><\/p>\n
Police have arrested three suspects, aged 28, 33 and 42 years. They also retrieved a weapon, which was reported stolen during an alleged housebreaking.<\/P><\/p>\n
The men are assisting with inquiries and are expected to appear before the court to face formal charges on Monday.<\/P><\/p>\n
By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Grand Bahama police arrested three men for the alleged beating and attempted armed robbery of several foreign sailors on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}